>pre 1850
Wrong. All of it

>>18064924
Not at all. Pre-1850s, meticulous chronicles were kept by scribes.

> the fucking rosetta stone
> discovered 1799, deciphered 1820s
> used to read ancient egyptian hieroglyphs directly
> confirms shit we knew from greek historians
> names, dates, wars, taxes
> multiple civs with separate records all corroborating the same events
> archaeology matches the texts. coins, sunken ships, ruins

But yeah sure anon, it is all made up. The entire human race colluded on a fanfic for millennia.

>>18064934
No physical evidence for battle of stalingrad.
>>18064924
The bureaucracy part is. The king of England isn't the line claimed. All the ancestry and meaning of the leadership is bogus.
The infrastructure they built is real and still exists.

>>18064924
very little was outright made up. its hard to truly make shit up and get people to believe it
but a lot of stories are exaggerated. think of kings talking about how many enemy soldiers they killed. did they actually put 10000 foreigners to death in a single battle? probably not, but they probably did kill a lot.

>>18066329
ancient egyptian records are not seen as 100% accurate. again, not making things up wholesale but fudging numbers to make egypt look better especially in matters that happened far from the nile delta where the average egyptian would have no way of knowing wtf really happened