"means of gaining the support of the people without modern technology. Today we have the media to spread political feelings and sway the public to support their leaders" I know it seems simple but I have never thought about how media and politics spread throughout the different countries. I feel like I've taken my computer for granite.

"given the extensive education we do through just to graduate from high school and advances in technology and science; it’s easy for us to assume we are much more complex thinkers than people in the past." I know it sounds bad but I have also stereotyped people of the past as illiterate and dumb. Although it was from these people that we have algebra and the discovery of the atom. 

I also liked how you compared it to the Divine Comedy, I thought the contrast was perfect. Who do you think is our Charlemagne of today?