Quote Originally Posted by Killer
The only way that i know of that the Catholic church kept people from knowing what was in the Bible was by not letting them read the Bible for themselves. I know that most commoners couldn't read anyway, but if i'm not mistaken the priests were the only ones allowed to read the Bible so the commoners didn't really know what the Bible really said, they had to believe the priest.
thats exactly what i'm talking about; +10 to you...

jamie are are forgeting Roman Empire was a cluster fuck of cultures... all of the knowledge, wealth came from rome, the rest of the empire was made up of broken cultures now forced to live as the romans, we are talking about tons of different languages and cultures. the common person in that time did not know how to read or write; they were farming and fighting to expand the empire for rome. you can google post all day long on how ROME had schools b/c it doesn't matter, literacy was quite a problem back then. Besides even in your post you have a greek slave teaching a roman , i've never heard about uber educated slaves, or how is a greek slave going to communicate w/ a roman, eygptian, indian, or w/ any tribe member for that matter? i forgot they were so well educated they all knew 10+ languages back then