The History of Lorem Ipsum
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''' The Roman empire had the technology of written language, and a lot of their records, written in Latin, survive today. Unfortunately those records are shrouded in many dense layers of propaganda: they’ve been selectively preserved and presented by academics over the millennia, to support whatever political, religious, or philosophical cause; and of course, many of them were spun to the political needs of the Romans who wrote them in the first place. As a consequence, most ancient history should should be taken with several grains of salt. '''
It sounds like a detailed version of "history is written by the winners".
As near as I can tell, this is what all competent historians will tell you. We know history is biased, and that what we have is fragmentary and not reflective of the vast majority of peoples' lives. That's why we supplement history, which is the study of the written record, with archaeology, which is the study of the non-written record, such as midden heaps and old homesteads and so on.