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Re:Experiencing History in Assassin’s Creed by jonny_eh on Thursday November 11, 2021 @04:14PM (#29193258)
> taking fiction as source of historical reality

As opposed to all those reliable primary sources our concept of history is based on?

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Re:Experiencing History in Assassin’s Creed by Angostura on Thursday November 11, 2021 @04:35PM (#29193505)
There are many good historical prmarty sources - yes.
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Re:Experiencing History in Assassin’s Creed by watwut on Friday November 12, 2021 @01:16AM (#29196758)
I don't know who told you all primary sources are reliable. Historians don't say so. And yes, fairly reliable primary sources exist, then again I would not gave them to kids to read.

But, 2000 fiction whose primary goal is entertainment is in fact not reliable source of history.

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