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It's so much worse than that. There are very few primary source documents that predate The Thirty Years' War, meaning we know almost nothing about what happened before the year 1600 and have to make educated guesses and forming narratives with those guesses.

Actually, it still gets worse. Most of our "sources" are Renaissance forgeries themselves. Gallic Wars is an interesting case study because its topological descriptions of Gaul are egregiously nonsensical, meaning it was probably written by a random guy who had never once set foot outside of Italy.