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#422 - Dr Joe Henrich - Evolution, Psychology, Monogamy & Culture
Modern Wisdom
Is There a Culture of Literacy in Islam?
i make the case that what we think of now is the stand s that everybody becomes literate. And it's because protestants believe that everyone should learn to read the bible for themselves, girls and boys. This is why they're led to lots of literacy in girls eause they had to read the Bible. But after the destruction of the atemple in the first century a d c e, jews decide that all jewish boys should learning to read the tora in hebrew. So so jews become, you know, the earliest society with widespread literacy. Then this opens the door for jews to spread into urban occupations all over the islamic world. That's
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