While barbarism, romanticism (in the aesthetical, not historical sense), and violence were essential parts of the old warrior cultures, but we can't say the same for ignorance. It is wrong to judge an old culture by today's standards and to say they were ignorant just because they weren't a developed society in today's sense.
<em>The four main literary genres are poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and drama, with each varying in style, structure, subject matter, and the use of figurative language. The genre raises certain expectations in what the reader anticipates will happen within that work.</em>