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In ancient times, the scarcity of sources often made authentic historical understanding difficult. However, in the last thousand years of Western history, an overwhelming abundance of evidence from countless perspectives—primary sources, archaeological findings, economic records, and more—makes concealing major truths nearly impossible. Outside this time frame, especially in prehistory or non-Western cultures, sources are murky, and claims about what happened become questionable. A key point is that most distortions stem not from a lack of evidence but from the manipulation of context; humans inherently craft narratives with clear directional stories, which can be deliberately misused to hide certain truths.