When we look at ancient to modern history we are essentially viewing it through the extensive bookkeeping and writing of English/ European origin. This means that the majority of documentation done at that time period was done by a white person. This is why we can’t determine certain things like white slave numbers taken by Barbary pirates in the Mediterranean, but have extensive listings and know every minute detail of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. It is also why British colonization is so well known, but not the massive colonizing other ethnicities were known to have done. Is the British obsession with documentation the main reason White’s are so vilified today? If other societies kept such extensive records we could have rebuttal material from what we know were equal is not superior transgressions during the same time period.