You're right. But what was described isn't pop history, that trivializes the magnitude of its impact. For most the world most of the time for all of history, th

You're right. But what was described isn't pop history, that trivializes the magnitude of its impact. For most the world most of the time for all of history, that _was_ how the past was understood. And today, we still understand the present this way, and it takes time to gather critical sources and discover truth, and hopefully record it.