2006-08-27 20:51:51 · 4 answers · asked by phoenix 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Other - Education
Many would have been uneducated--no religion, no education. And those educated would have had limited knowledge at all. History is replete with cases of social control by theocratic authorities. The worst, IMHO, is the Age of Inquisition when the clergy burned all books other than the religious texts and those with their IMPRIMATUR.
2006-08-27 22:42:07 · answer #1 · answered by Bummerang 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Science would slow down to a crawl. The Roman Catholic Church didn't acknowledge that Galileo was right for 400 years. Religious dogman would interfere with any scientific teachings that went against the teachings of the church. A similar thing happened under communist Russia when the genetics program was run by a party "apparachik" that did no studies whatsoever and stated blatantly erroneous conclusions (which they didn't know were wrong until years later). As a result the Soviet genetics programs were years behind the times. A very, very bad idea.
2006-08-28 03:59:05 · answer #2 · answered by Paul H 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's how education used to be until societies started public schools. Read your history books or look at the Mideastern countries and how backward their people are.
2006-08-28 04:03:35 · answer #3 · answered by Lola 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just read your mideval history or look at Iran.
2006-08-28 03:58:19 · answer #4 · answered by Mack L 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋