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— Isaac Wilks 🎤🐢 (@wilks_isaac) June 24, 2020 But there was no Dark Ages,
June 24, 2020, 10:48 PM · Regular-ass Post