Answer:
There are multiple reasons but just to name some..
Explanation:
-media could influence peoples opinions
- a bad experience or being enemies with someone of a certain nation
-someone they are close too could have had a bad experience with someone of a nation
-things going on in the world around them
~edgumacation/brianna
The skepticism about the empire of Ghana and the accounts for it is nothing weird because the majority of what is written about it is from two people from the same place, that had totally different views and interpretations on the things, and came from different culture.
Very often in the historical text, the people that wrote something have been very subjective, not objective. Thus the writings of these two Arab geographers can be very misleading, as they described what they saw with their own eyes, but also with using their own perception. That has proven numerous times to give very inaccurate depictions of a society and culture, like the depictions of the Romans for the Celts, or of the Greeks for the Scythian female warriors that they named Amazons.
There's only one point of view unfortunately, and it is always much more reliable when multiple writings are available from people from multiple different backgrounds, or the best scenario if it is writings from the people in question.
Dred Scot was taken to live in St.Louis by his slaveholder. this is because during his trial, he stated that since his slaveholder had taken him to live in a free state, that meant that he was now a free man. hope this helps!
