The End (of Religion) is Near, Scientists Say
…ision as much as anything; a decision to accept or reject the new imperial order. Those who chose the more difficult bi-lingual option were often enormously useful as translators, though often deeply unhappy since they effectively belonged nowhere—no longer native and not quite imperial was their tragic new location. When it became clear that many restive native peoples were maintaining their indigenous languages, the empire set out to shut them d…
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