might work for say post the 1800's in literate countries, but for e.g. Rome our sources are so sparse and so far removed from the time they're writing about that it would be worse than nothing.
For a period like the Roman Empire, there's might be too little source material to even train the model to speak Latin, let alone to say anything about its world. IIRC, the entire surviving corpus of ancient Latin would fit into a couple of bookshelves - it's miniscule.
duskwuff|1 year ago