Upsettingshorts wrote...
I was thinking mainly of things like uncovered primary sources and declassified documents, but yes, information must always be put in context. Context changes more swiftly - and is more difficult to establish - in current events than it does with events long past.
Up to a point, at least. If an event or person is ancient or obscure enough, then establishing the facts/context is extraordinarily difficult.
Historically speaking, primary documents are actually rare.
Source documents can be primary or secondary, but are always put into the perspective of the person writing. My favorite example is always the "Fall of Rome", which was coined by Edward Gibbon's, but he had a very positivist portrayal of the events, meaning he took the sources almost ver-batum and didn't question them. He also had an axe to grind, so his own bias was involved in his major publications.
Considering the fact that all the politics in the games are mostly made up, yet follow similar beats to, as I said, romanticize them to make them fun and melodramatic. Nothing wrong with that in the end, since its easy and competant enough to do.
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