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@BattleDwarfGimli @DMA @Snidely_Whiplash @s2208 @Obfuskation Me too. I could memorize a phone number without writing it down.
Today? Hell no.
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I mean, that's legitimately probably a thing.
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@BattleDwarfGimli @s2208 @DMA @Snidely_Whiplash @Obfuskation I know people who are otherwise very intelligent, who can't remember how to get anywhere as their GPS is always on in the car.
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I used to have dozens of phone numbers memorized.
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@BattleDwarfGimli @Snidely_Whiplash @DMA @Obfuskation They made a strong point, that being that writing their knowledge down would be the easy way, and the individuals would not memorize as much information as it would all be available at their fingertips.
Tradeoffs. They were right, but they took all of that knowledge with them.
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my memory started to suffer the moment I began to read and write. I can’t remember anything before that.
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Also, on that Illiteracy - the Gauls of now-France (soon to be Assfuckistan) and the Irish - pretty much all the Celts - had oral traditions. That they did not write things down, does not make them illiterate in the spirit of the word. They were far from it. Julius Caesar records in his annals of the Gallic wars that their Druids could recite whole histories off the tops of their heads, and the sons of nobles and leaders clamored to be accepted into the druidical fold, for such education. Many of the Gallic nobles were, in fact, literate, and could typically write in at least Latin, their own languages having no writing system at that time. This would change by at least the 8th century.
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@BattleDwarfGimli @DMA I get the impression that "Dark Ages" was a term made up by Enlightenment fetishists.
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"The Dark Ages" is a term coined by historians to highlight the lack of documentation of the history England after the withdrawal of Rome in the 5th century. The native Britons were not particularly literate, and the invading Germans were illiterate Pagans, so even church records of baptisms and deaths stopped being kept. Life in the North also got more difficult because of economic contraction due to the cooling climate. Keeping careful records is not high on the list when you're hungry.
A similar situation was happening at the same time in other parts of Europe, and the entire phenomenon was christened a Dark Age.
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Sweet find.
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I'm already finding things that "don't match up" with what we're taught. First of all, consider the frontispiece - Medieval History - 300-1500.
Wait.
Where did the Dark Ages go?
Is it possible there was really no such period?
Ever heard of Constantinople?
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