Most of what we are taught about the average person is what the elite class wrote. Yes, my instructor does speak on the average person, but there really is not much he can tell us that the book does not already cover. Maybe this is why in history we only hear about the elite class, because this is what they felt people were interested in. My instructor does go into the lives of the average person a bit. Not into great detail, but how people lived.
History is elitest in nature.
But it is a good accout of what happened because we still live that way today. The elites run this country just like a king or emperor ran their civilization. Not to get into a big political debate, but the big business people in this country hold the goverment in the palm of their hands, and hold us in their hands too. They supply jobs and influence how government treats all, just like in the earlier civilizations. Historians can speak with confidence about the average person, because they lived under rule, just like we do now.