... backed up with more relevant evidence and facts. Greek historians interpreted records with too much credulity and little skepticism. Many pre-nineteenth-century historians handled evidence with a casual disregard for critical standards. They did not understand that with time, values and standards were changing. With that in mind, modern historians started to disbelief past historians due to no primary sources and ... the Middle Ages as unworthy of study because medieval men and women were not "enlightened," as he felt himself to be (HP4). History became more academically during the Fren...

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