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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (891039)10/1/2015 10:32:45 PM
From: TimF   of 1576114
 
So we shouldn't even know about our Civil War yet by those standards......how can you explain that?

Communication, transportation, literacy, population density, wealth beyond survival level, etc. were far more advanced even in the Civil War times, and much more so now, then in Roman times.

Also the Civil War involved over two million men under arms, over 600,000 military deaths, and maybe 700,000 total deaths.

Not to mention that the initial histories of ancient events or people are often lost, leaving only secondary sources. The Civil War is much closer to modern times and plenty of original sources exist.

And "having historians write about it" isn't the same as "people know about it". The historians who wrote years to centuries later got information from oral history (again literacy is much higher now).
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