What does the phrase “history is lies agreed upon” mean?

History is a set of lies agreed upon." -Napoleon Bonaparte. 2. What Napoleon is saying in this quote is essentially that we don't actually know happened at any point in history.

the right answer for the question that is being asked and shown above is that: "their policy of "divide and rule" pitted political groups against each other to keep any one group from becoming too powerful.  " the  participant in european imperialism is being described below is that  their policy of "divide and rule" pitted political groups against each other to keep any one group from becoming too powerful.