[Amezarak]

What would it even mean for a human society to not have 'history' or 'culture'? This doesn't make any sense, and I don't think anyone claims this. I think everyone recognizes that almost all history is undocumented, but I don't think anyone would therefore claim it doesn't exist.

I can at least imagine people quibbling about "science"; clearly, once again, every human society that has ever existed in the past two million years has some sort of technological development that required some kind of empirical process of understanding of the world, but I can see why people might not consider that science.

I think people are usually more dismissive of people turning historical molehills into glorious mountains. There's whole industries and groups dedicated to doing this everywhere in the world, on a sliding scale of extremist claims, up to and including "our ancestors had lasers and nuclear weapons, as demonstrated by these descriptions in our religious texts", but naturally you see it more often in places that aren't known as meccas of scientific and technological development...usually for good reason (they weren't). Even neutral well-intentioned people often stretch known historical reality too far in an attempt to make people look better, but it's usually nationalist partisans.

These people (the partisans) would generally be better served making their locales better today than trying to convince everyone of a glorious past that likely didn't exist or has been highly exaggerated.