Question

What difficulties do you think might arise when trying to understand ideas from the past, especially when those ideas are so different from our modern thinking? Do you think primary resources show a complete picture of the period they are from? Give an example or two to illustrate your answer.

Answer 1

Well you gotta understand the past is the past man, i cant understand the concept that my dad was a marathon runner because i've only ever known him as round and cudldly. in the same way we cant begin to say we FULLY comprehend how ancient societies worked

Answer 2

PRIMARY sources are the most biased usually

Answer 3

well i may not know the best exemplars of bias, but Caesar wrote his own biographies about his triumphs......BIASED. Alaxander the Great had scribes record his military victories and had them blow stuff out of proportion

Answer 4

maybe the best example is of the battle of Thermopalie or however you spell it where they recon the Persians had 100000000 men

Answer 5

aspects of the truth make the misinformation harder to spot

Answer 6

i totally love history man

Answer 7

you can ask me whatever anytime cool-cool?