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steveosek t1_j74vpb4 wrote

Reply to comment by Devil-sAdvocate in Battle site of 'Great Revolt' recorded on Rosetta Stone unearthed in Egypt by AugustWolf22

Very true. Also wasn't Greek pretty much the universal language of the time for writing? Like didn't even the Romans write in Greek a lot too?

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Devil-sAdvocate t1_j75c9q7 wrote

After Rome conquered Greece (~175 BC) they took a bunch of educated Greeks as slaves to do administration duties/scribes.

Then after the empire split, The Eastern Roman Empire mostly used Greek while the Western mostly used Latin.

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