I find this really interesting. I left school 20 years ago, I've lived a wildly varied life and been all around the world on adventures outside of general tourism, with highs and lows tied to locations I am beyond familiar with, yet far too many of my dreams are in that damn school.
I didnt do anything during lockdown, that is, I carried on mostly as normal. I co-founded a community that was about socialisation for kids and being outdoors. None of us have long covid. None of us had anything worse than a flu.
I also have friends that I didn't see closer than 10 metres during lockdown, they stayed indoors and watched Netflix, ordered food online, and behave themselves. 8 of them have "long covid". I understand anecdote isn't evidence, but when this whole thing became political I decided I can only make decisions based on experience and not what my better insist upon me.
I hate lights in general. People's garden security lights over a mile away can illuminate my bedroom. People walking around at night with LED headtorches in my face (I am now blind thanks), I can't see the sky at night thanks to overly powerful street lights, and they didn't stop me nearly being murderered a couple times, and worse to my friends. Working in an office we had constant bright overhead lightning. Everything is needlessly overilluminated.
I've said multiple times that strong females exist in the real world, and that players should be allowed to role play as such in D&D if they want. The D&D team, and the community as a whole agrees with that. It's only a small portion of the internet that seems to be upset with allowing this sort of freedom to role play.
The quipo scholars were literate, it was just terribly inefficient system compared to physical representations of language we are familiar with. It still beats having no records at all though, Shows just how powerful preserving and passing knowledge is.
There were lots of other groups of people in between. Even if only neighbouring people traded with each other, the trade network could still span the continents, with some items moving much farther than the individual people.
My Partner has absolute dogshit spatial memory. I visit a city once and I remember my bearings instinctively, probably due to playing a lot of badly designed mazelike Video games, but she can visit a City several times and still get lost going somewhere she has been before. Should we be worried?