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best time to be alive
Considering every aspect of life including the person such as race, religion, gender and age, as well as how well of they were (probably quite would be the answer)
aswell as when they'd be alive and where, (considering disease, taxes, crime etc)
who and when would be the best time to be alive in the history of humanity?
Hoepfully that made sense.
I'd say perhaps a victorian mill owner. Many cures for diseases had been found, I don't think taxes were that high, there wasn't the world wars to harm you . . . . . .
aswell as when they'd be alive and where, (considering disease, taxes, crime etc)
who and when would be the best time to be alive in the history of humanity?
Hoepfully that made sense.
I'd say perhaps a victorian mill owner. Many cures for diseases had been found, I don't think taxes were that high, there wasn't the world wars to harm you . . . . . .
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smallpox didn't die out until the 1970s or so. There wasn't a cholera vaccine until 1900, and people still contract it occasionally. And there were lots of 19th century wars (Crimea, Zulu, America, many many more). The real question is whether you'd have been liable to die in any of these ways. If you were rich and not living in cramped conditions, with access to a varied diet and safe water (possibly living in the countryside if you didn't need to find work in the cities), and able to avoid being pressed into the navy, you'd have had as good a chance as anyone.
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well they had better lives than people of the dark ages, that's for certain.
eat as much as you can, vomit then eat some more, given lots of prunes if you haven't pooed in the last 10 hours or something, reasonable healthcare such as the mouldy bread later developed into penicillin, or was that the egyptians only.
eat as much as you can, vomit then eat some more, given lots of prunes if you haven't pooed in the last 10 hours or something, reasonable healthcare such as the mouldy bread later developed into penicillin, or was that the egyptians only.
no, they didn't have conscription until WW1, mollykins. But they did have press gangs who would basically kidnap people and make them sailors in the navy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press_gangs
Funnily enough, life in the Middle Ages was actually better in many ways than later life in cities in the Industrial Revolution - they ate better, and their skeletons seem to be taller than those fo their descendants. But it wasn't necessarily much longer; there were all sorts of things to die from (childbirth was a common one) and very little effective medicine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press_gangs
Funnily enough, life in the Middle Ages was actually better in many ways than later life in cities in the Industrial Revolution - they ate better, and their skeletons seem to be taller than those fo their descendants. But it wasn't necessarily much longer; there were all sorts of things to die from (childbirth was a common one) and very little effective medicine.
