Ramses II erected so many obelisks and carved so many hieroglyphs into walls. If the public could not read them, what use was his propaganda?
The more people who could read, the more effective slogans became. Otherwise, even if passersby saw an obelisk, they would not know what had been recorded on it if they could not read the words.
During the Cairo Revolt, it was also educated people in Egypt who accepted rule by people from France and led them straight to the mosque serving as the rebel headquarters. They saw nothing wrong with Egypt becoming a foreign colony; after all, European civilization had brought enormous change and development to Egypt.
American cultural influence had likewise affected many people, such as through the Hippie movement of the seventies. Yet America's prison system had not changed in the slightest from Salem in 1692 to the present day. Prison guards three hundred years ago thought the income from their work matched the yield of Britain's finest wheat fields, and prison guards three hundred years later still considered it a decent business.
Not every country could accept that culture. Hobbes wrote in Leviathan that national laws were like the rules of a game: if everyone was willing to participate, no one could call it unjust. When the Salem girls stood at the plaintiff's bench and made their accusations, no one thought to question whether it was fair to strip defendants of their lives through civil cases.
Did civil cases carry the death penalty?
The purpose of a civil trial was to stop harm. The purpose of hanging witches was to prevent them from continuing to hurt innocent people. There was also the principle that no case was heard without a complaint. If someone accused the judge's mother and he refused to accept