For an old era we find written records only of kings and battles, nothing about ordinary farmers'…

Why

Vivek makes a fair link — if something mattered, surely someone recorded it. But he forgot to ask WHO got to write. In that era only a few — court scribes, priests, the powerful — could write, and they recorded THEIR world: kings, wars, taxes. Ordinary farmers were most of the people and mattered enormously, yet they couldn't write and no one wrote for them. So silence in the records reflects who held the pen, not who was important. Missing evidence isn't proof of unimportance; it's a gap with its own cause. Historians fill it using other traces — tools, pots, paintings. Test: your class photo shows only who stood in front of the camera — those left out weren't unimportant, just out of frame. Vivek's not right: 'unwritten' means the writers were few and powerful, not that ordinary lives didn't matter — think about who could record before reading meaning into silence.