> but if there were no written accounts that survive to the modern day There were plenty of written histories outside Europe at 1AD. E.g. the Mayan civilisatio

> but if there were no written accounts that survive to the modern day There were plenty of written histories outside Europe at 1AD. E.g. the Mayan civilisation [0]. Their counting system has been traced back to 1000BC. > The study of those peoples is left to the realm of archaeology and anthropology, not history There is still no excuse for pretty much the whole of America being blank until about the 15th Century. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_civilization#Writing_and_literacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_civilization#Writing_and_...