Literacy (CivRev)

Literacy
Cost	60 Science
Technologies
Required	Alphabet Writing
Required	Alphabet Writing
Leads to	None
Leads to	None
First development benefit
Science bonus
Unlocks
Great People	Confucius
Buildings	Courthouse
Wonders	Shakespeare's Theatre
Resources	Silk
Obsoletes
Stonehenge

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Literacy is a technology in Civilization Revolution.

Strategy

Players who discover Literacy can increase the number of regions on which their workers may labor through the construction of Courthouses and bolster their Culture output by harvesting Silk. They can also construct Shakespeare's Theatre, a wonder that doubles the host city's Culture output. If you are the first to research Literacy, all of your cities will receive a bonus to Science output!

Civilopedia entry

Literacy - the ability to read and write - was a rare skill, particularly in Europe and the Americas, until the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The importance placed on literacy, though, varied from culture to culture. Select early cultures - China, India and Islamic states - put particular emphasis on their citizens' ability to read and write. And with the advent of free public education, world literacy got yet another push forward.

Fun facts

• Numerous religions throughout history have required that their members know how to read and write, so that they may study their religion's sacred texts. Islam and Judaism both required that their faithful be literate so that they could comprehend their most sacred of scriptures.
• Thanks largely to the Protestant Reformation in the sixteenth century, the literacy rate of European men and women increased greatly. This was in large part because, for the first time, Bibles began to be written in their readers' native language rather than Latin. This meant that common men and women could read the Bible themselves for the first time ever.