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Say for example I want to study specific Eras Like Ancient Rome or The 2000s How would I Study A Historical Era ?

Say for example I want to study specific Eras Like Ancient Rome or The 2000s How would I Study A Historical Era ?

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Inverse what (((certain historians))) say.

Also, assume people were roughly as smart, back then, if not smarter during the 17 and 1800s.

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Smarter, they were much smarter. Deep vs superficial.

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There's a theory that human intelligence peaked several centuries ago. I can't remember the date, but I think it was around 1600. We've been getting less intelligent ever since, but the development of science has concealed this drop in intelligence from the general awareness.

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Find historical documents from that time period, learn about that person and what their bias might be and try to find more than one document documenting what you are looking into.

If it was year 3000 and you read the Washington Post to learn about the Trump Presidency, you'd have an erroneous perception of reality.

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You need to pick one because you couldn’t study all of history in hundreds of lifetimes. I’ve dabbled in history books since I was a child because it’s fascinating if your attention is claimed. There are endless questions and rabbit holes in history. You do need context.. as in time frames but most history books intentionally mislead and dilute information. In other words, good luck, but you’ll learn if you want to.

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Start from the position that any official narrative told by movies, television, popular books or public schools is probably being used to sell an agenda.

A few easy starting points:

  • Holocaust - fake
  • Jews - oppressors
  • Democracy - bad
  • Ideological Progress - nonexistent
  • Government Story - lie
  • Indigenous People - not peace loving angels
  • Civil Rights Movement - fraud
  • Women’s Rights Movement - evil
  • Labor Laws - meaningless
  • Medical Research - power and profit driven
  • Real Socialism - tried over and over again with devastating results
  • Man-made Ecological Disasters - local but not global
  • Sexual Revolution - perversity
  • LGBTQP - victims only among themselves, aggressors against the innocent
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Beef - The healthiest food for the human body. Add salt to taste.

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Right here is a collection of works philosophical/historical about how the modern world was shaped 1700-1900s and why our living standards are so high. https://oll.libertyfund.org

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Rome? Read Livy.

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Ideally you would read primary sources. That is, account written at the time of the even or era you are interested in. Libraries will be your friend. The older and larger the better. A lot of them are digitizing some books which may help you.

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History is the study of documents.

This is what actual historians do. Read all the primary and secondary sources they can find and try to boil it down into an understandable format. Primary sources are the testimony of people who were there. Official reports, private letters, etc. Secondary sources are things like compilations and newspapers.

Of course historians can be completely filled with bias and outright lies and most people will never know. So can primary and secondary sources.

To truly understand history you have to combine history with geography, sociology, politics, etymology, religion and a host of other things. You also, of course, have to be jew aware. The main stumbling block will be if you are unable to identify who is misleading you whether it be intentional or not.

Your greatest tool in overcoming that is predictive models. If your modeling of the situation is predictive, it's potentially right. If it fails to predict it's almost certainly wrong. This is where liberals always fail. Their models are always wrong.

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Thanks I know that to study history you need to study other things such as culture.

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To understand an historical period, you need to immerse yourself in it. To understand ancient Rome, start reading Roman writers such as Cicero and Plutarch (who was a Greek, but he became a Roman citizen and he wrote about the noble Romans). Also read the poets and playwrights. Ovid, Apuleius, Plautus. Read them all. This will give you something that overviews of historical periods can never give you -- insight into the thinking of the people of that time. In short, don't merely read about the historical period -- read the historical period itself.

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Thanks I will study the people of an era I get what you're saying.

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