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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (891039)	10/1/2015 10:32:45 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1575428

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).

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (891039)	10/2/2015 11:41:43 AM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1575428

Josephus didn't write any histories till after Jesus's time. That's true...why not? He wrote about the Masada siege in 74 in the prime of his live....... Because Josephus wasn't born early enough. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Most ancient histories were written hundreds of years after the times they wrote about. So we shouldn't even know about our Civil War yet by those standards......how can you explain that? By pointing out: 1) the civil war isn't that ancient - the Civil War came after the printing press and widespread use of paper making technology 2) just because the earliest histories we have of Alexander the Great (as an example) were written centuries after his time doesn't mean that people didn't know about Alexander the Great and his conquests. We even know there were writings done in Alexander's time, we just don't have them. We only have a tiny amount of writings from antiquity and what we do have were preserved by Christian scholars.