How did the people in the Naruto Universe forget about their history?


Can somebody explain the timeline of Naruto?

Apparently everything started off with the Sage of the Six Paths creating
jutsus (with no info on society before it), and then a couple generations
later Konoha is founded. Then about two generations later Naruto becomes this
savior of the world.

Judging from this, people forgot even though the span of their history could
only be about 1000 years.

Let's say the Six Paths was 1000 years ago and the Konoha as well as the other
major hidden villages were founded around 300 years ago. What happened in
those 700 years?

How did the people forget their own history, in such a short time? Did
**everybody** just forget to tell their children stories about the strong
people of their time? Was there no form of writing or stories passed down
generation to generation?

**Note:** I'm not saying that the history was only 1000 years, it might have
been longer or even shorter. There was no evidence to it so I estimated it by
generation. Each new generation every 60-80 years.




Naruto/Naruto Shippuden is mainly focused on the tale of the gutsy,
unpredictable, strong willed protagonist ninja Naruto. Everything that relates
to him is shown in the story.

Of course, the sage of Six Paths taught people the Jutsu. An art of fighting
to protect themselves or the weak to retain humanity on earth. The human race
were then able to use Justsu to at least fight against beasts/animals (for
example, the ten-tails which attacked)

People later started to misuse Jutsu, stemming from their hunger for power and
wealth.

The history prior to Rikudō Sennin is not important to Naruto's story so it is
not mentioned anywhere. That doesn't mean that the people have forgotten
everything.

