When one thinks of their condition before, one could understand why.
Threats from Darkspawn and the hard grip from the kingdom over the people, it is no wonder the people in the Three Kingdoms are all hardy people
But in this kind of environment progress is hard. Other than the military most other disciple of lie is ignored
Arial understood the power of the military. But he also understood that the more important thing is knowledge.
Military itself is not power. The knowledge of military is the thing that is powerful. The knowledge of military is what separates two commanders.
The Three Kingdom did not expend any of their resources to education. As such they lack administrators and most administrators of the kingdom is from the noble family.
In Human Continent while there is a separation between nobles and commoners, the differences did not lead to such disparate condition as it is in the Shadowlands.