Why Btonze Age?

[abaris]

There were and have always been people -just like you-, who know when they're being told a tall tale.  Recall what the greeks had to say regarding their own myths, and what the romans had to say regarding the ignorant superstitions of the christians.  Cavarka didn't mince words on the subject.

But what did the Greeks and Romans make of it? They laughed at the christian myths but still worshipped their own gods.

I think it's important to remember, the level of knowledge was much lower than it is today. There may have some select few really in doubt, not just about the foreigner's tales. Plyni the younger was the first to observe a pyroclastic wave in recorded history. Today we know, he described it correctly, but for the longest time, people doubted his account. Because they had nothing to compare it against. It's not even a hundred years that we have that level of knowledge.

It was much more common to doubt some tale back in the day, but at the same time still resort to the own tales. Since there was virtually nothing to compare it against. No reality checks of any kind. The ones leaving us written accounts were highly educated people by their standards. But the vast majority of people weren't. Not even in Roman or Greek time, when education was a little bit more common than it was in the middle ages or, if we take their contemporaries, in other regions of the world. But still, by todays knowledge only ten percent of Romans were literate.