A scribe is a person who serves as a professional copyist, especially one who made copies of manuscripts before the invention of automatic printing. The profession of the scribe, previously widespread across cultures, lost most of its prominence and status with the advent of the printing press. The work of scribes can involve copying manuscripts and other texts as well as secretarial and administrative duties such as the taking of dictation and keeping of business, judicial, and historical records for kings, nobles, temples, and cities. The profession has developed into public servants, journalists, accountants, bookkeepers, typists, and lawyers. In societies with low literacy rates, street-corner letter-writers may still be found providing scribe service.
The law in which prohibited the marriage between racial
groups that led to pacific islanders into marrying people in the tribal
communities was because of the anti miscegenation law. This law had enforced
racial segregation in which marriage or relationships are prohibited in races
that are different.
Erasmus was a Dutch humanist who became a monk and a scholar with the many reformers of his time, Erasmus saw the leaders of his church abusing their powers.
