Obviously this meme is a bit of an exaggeration but many Historians throughout history exaggerated numbers and figures to make their side look better and the other side look worse.
Ibn Khaldun was one of the first people to start the science of historiography: the study of how history is presented and researched. He talked about the tendency of historians to sensationalize in his *Muqaddimah:*
> Whenever contemporaries speak about the dynastic armies of their own or recent times, and whenever they engage in discussions about Muslim or Christian soldiers, or when they get to figuring the tax revenues and the money spent by the government, the outlays of extravagant spenders, and the goods that rich and prosperous men have in stock, they are quite generally found to exaggerate, to go beyond the bounds of the ordinary, and to succumb to the temptation of sensationalism.
This meme is just a fun portrayal of this idea.
Dedicated to u/homerius786
John_the_sock65 on
Bro used his headcannonsðŸ˜
MuffinMountain3425 on
Bro was the first guy in history to make the suggestion not to exaggerate historical records. Was every one else just dumb?
Merbleuxx on
Love the meme. But Ibn Khaldun is the Chad, always.
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Obviously this meme is a bit of an exaggeration but many Historians throughout history exaggerated numbers and figures to make their side look better and the other side look worse.
Ibn Khaldun was one of the first people to start the science of historiography: the study of how history is presented and researched. He talked about the tendency of historians to sensationalize in his *Muqaddimah:*
> Whenever contemporaries speak about the dynastic armies of their own or recent times, and whenever they engage in discussions about Muslim or Christian soldiers, or when they get to figuring the tax revenues and the money spent by the government, the outlays of extravagant spenders, and the goods that rich and prosperous men have in stock, they are quite generally found to exaggerate, to go beyond the bounds of the ordinary, and to succumb to the temptation of sensationalism.
This meme is just a fun portrayal of this idea.
Dedicated to u/homerius786
Bro used his headcannonsðŸ˜
Bro was the first guy in history to make the suggestion not to exaggerate historical records. Was every one else just dumb?
Love the meme. But Ibn Khaldun is the Chad, always.