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The pope was the leader of the Roman Catholic Church and was based in Rome. The most important of these local rulers, however, was the pope. Various rulers tried to control the different kingdoms. After that the region was divided into many small kingdoms.

Later, groups of people from the north invaded the Roman Empire. By 117 ce the Roman Empire stretched from Britain to North Africa to what is now the Middle East. Rome became the chief power in the Mediterranean world. The Etruscans later fell under the control of the Romans, their neighbors to the south. The hope, and idea really, being that now, maybe more than ever, facts actually DO matter, and not all information is created equal.More than 2,500 years ago a group of people known as the Etruscans began building a civilization in west-central Italy. Members can access the encyclopedia's information online. "The people who are willing to take a critical or a skeptical look at something are the ones that you need to reach."Īnd those are the people Britannica is hoping it can still reach, through its various online tools. "Well, some people you're just never going to reach or ever convince," Mikkelson said. Some 25 years later, the site gets around 20 million users per month – people hoping to separate fiction from fact.īurbank said, " The very idea of what the objective facts of our world are, are really up for debate right now." The site started as a hobby debunking odd rumors, like the one about Walt Disney being frozen when he died. "My initial goal was to be, like, this Encyclopedia Britannica for urban legends," he said. He runs the fact-checking website from a tiny office in his home in Tacoma, Washington. Of course, the information on Wikipedia could come from anywhere, but it's actually relatively reliable, compared to what else is out there. "I immediately went, 'This literally looks like Wikipedia,'" said Angel Guevarta. Oliver Bailey said, "When I first saw it, I was kind of amazed because it was kind of a variety of everything – on this page you see animals, people, ancient illustrations." Schoolchildren at the Eisenhower Academy in Joliet, Ill., check out the Encyclopedia Britannica - it's like Wikipedia, in a book! These days it's rare that students, like fifth graders at Eisenhower Academy in Joliet, Illinois, would even pick up a physical copy of Britannica. "She would say, 'Oh, I have a headache.' And I would throw in, 'Oh, you know, the Bayer Aspirin Company patented heroin back in 1898.' And then she would be like, 'Well, that's a dollar!'" "And my wife started to fine me one dollar for every irrelevant fact I inserted into conversation. "I had all this knowledge, I kind of wanted to share it!" Jacobs said. He says the hardest part wasn't even reading all 44 million words it was trying to keep all those facts and figures to himself. The Encyclopedia Britannica, he said, "like the Mount Everest of knowledge." Jacobs read the whole set for a book he was writing. "Reading six hours a day, every day and anywhere." It took Jacobs about a year and a half to do so.

Then there's the Whole Set Club – people who've read an entire edition of the books, including George Bernard Shaw, Tesla founder Elon Musk, and writer A.J. Katharine Hepburn's character in "Desk Set" is said to be modeled on the Answer Girls' director.