Extra Credit Post - Silence can shape what is not there

In our extra credit blog, the article in the New York Times, spoke about the fall of great cities and the silence that followed. After reading so many stories of control, slavery, warfare, and economy, it was interesting to know that some of the oppressed people of this time fought back in their own ways. 

After the uprisings and destruction of the many palaces, to have the remaining working-class wipe away history was a massively organized feat in and of itself. To no longer write things down, to hide property or products was an amazing thing. Hiding from incoming rulers left a city, a country, and even time without a record of what was happening in the shadows.

It is said that if;  "you do not have anything nice to say, do not say anything at all". I would like to add to that by saying, "silence is golden". The silence exhibited by these revolutionaries of this time surely helped them to conceal and adapt for survival purposes.