daily reminder that peak literacy in the Roman Empire was around 30-40% in urban areas, dropped to below 5% in the West after 476, and did not regain those levels for a little over a thousand years
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the number of individuals alive at a single time who were competitent in any form of Latin is likely dramatically lower than the number of students in the cal system.
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oh from the standpoint of raw numbers sure
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cal university system? this only makes sense to me if most people in Rome (both the city and the Empire) did not speak Latin
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yeah wait Rome at its height had a population of like 60 million
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