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<p>[QUOTE="Gavin Richardson, post: 5180958, member: 83956"]I took a Roman history class in college. We had to memorize all the Roman emperors and their years up to a certain point. It might have been Constantine. The good news is, we were not responsible for the third century chaos period. That helped.</p><p><br /></p><p>You would be surprised what feats of memory you can perform do you have to do it. I guess this is why persons in the Early Modern period could go see a play and then come back and jot down a good bit of its dialogue with remarkable accuracy in their diaries. It’s believed that premodern persons had to depend on their memory a lot more than we moderns do, and thus their capacity for memorization was far greater. Or maybe we have the same capacity, but they were forced to use theirs much more routinely.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Gavin Richardson, post: 5180958, member: 83956"]I took a Roman history class in college. We had to memorize all the Roman emperors and their years up to a certain point. It might have been Constantine. The good news is, we were not responsible for the third century chaos period. That helped. You would be surprised what feats of memory you can perform do you have to do it. I guess this is why persons in the Early Modern period could go see a play and then come back and jot down a good bit of its dialogue with remarkable accuracy in their diaries. It’s believed that premodern persons had to depend on their memory a lot more than we moderns do, and thus their capacity for memorization was far greater. Or maybe we have the same capacity, but they were forced to use theirs much more routinely.[/QUOTE]
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