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re: What time period would you least like to live in?
Posted on 12/12/19 at 9:09 pm to athenslife101
Posted on 12/12/19 at 9:09 pm to athenslife101
I used to think I would want to live in a Western city after the Civil War, but after watching Deadwood, screw that.
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Posted on 12/12/19 at 9:10 pm to soccerfüt
It would be cool to be rich in ancient Rome , persia Babylon china , 1600 France I wouldn't mind living in dinosaurs time
Posted on 12/12/19 at 9:13 pm to scrooster
I disagree
Nope. Rome was disintegrated for a reason. You had several huge empires and generally people had more freedom during this time period than they’d had in the previous time period under the romans
It was pretty quiet. You had the lombards but Italy has been relatively peaceful up till the 1490s. There was even an incident where Italians were shocked that in other counties, people would die in wars
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after Rome pulled out say between 450-1066 would be rough I would think.
Nope. Rome was disintegrated for a reason. You had several huge empires and generally people had more freedom during this time period than they’d had in the previous time period under the romans
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Italy after the fall of Rome had to be a bitch for a few hundred years
It was pretty quiet. You had the lombards but Italy has been relatively peaceful up till the 1490s. There was even an incident where Italians were shocked that in other counties, people would die in wars
Posted on 12/12/19 at 9:31 pm to athenslife101
Anything pre 1950s
Posted on 12/12/19 at 9:36 pm to athenslife101
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Nope. Rome was disintegrated for a reason. You had several huge empires and generally people had more freedom during this time period than they’d had in the previous time period under the romans
Welllllllll .... I hear ya, I guess, except for one thing.
Once Rome pulled out no one knows for sure what happened because no one could read or write and make a record of what was happening.
That's why, and where, we get King Arthur handed down through verbal history because we know there was some serious suffering .... and the archeological record indicates there may have been a natural disaster like an asteroid strike or volcanic eruption that darkened the sky and brought famine and death during those years.
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It was pretty quiet. You had the lombards but Italy has been relatively peaceful up till the 1490s. There was even an incident where Italians were shocked that in other counties, people would die in wars
Not sure what incident you are referring to but my wife is Italian, I met her there, and we have lived there off and on for years until she changed jobs last year (she worked for Leonardo-Finmeccanica, she works for another Italian company now), and I feel like I have a pretty good grasp of Italian history and can tell you the country was at an almost constant state of war (it's regions) from the time Rome fell, through the middle ages and well into the high renaissance.
The period you're talking about around the 15 century began the period of what is know by Italians as the Period of Incessant Wars between the various city states.
Then you had more wars with France, then Spain, then France again they the black death then Napoleon then right on in to WWI then WWII.
Hell, they have probably been at war longer and more often than any other European country .... I can't think of any who fought more bigger bloody wars on their home ground than Italy. And because of their massive trade operations they were usually one of the first to get hit with the various plagues coming off of the ships.
Italy has a damn interesting history.
I wouldn't have minded spending some time in Firenza during the renaissance when Davinci was there and some of the others. Or in Venice when they were a major power. We lived not far from Venice a couple of times so it became like our backyard. I know it like the back of my hand and it would have been an interesting place to live at times.
Posted on 12/12/19 at 9:38 pm to athenslife101
Jurassic
Posted on 12/12/19 at 9:48 pm to athenslife101
Late 1800s US
Posted on 12/12/19 at 9:57 pm to athenslife101
Anything before central AC, yes I’m lazy.... whenever that was... anything before ww2 maybe. Couldn’t imagine living in the south in the summer with mosquitoes and no AC. One week with Gustav was enough to nearly drive me crazy.
Posted on 12/12/19 at 9:58 pm to PrivatePublic
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As a white heterosexual male....right now.
Black people literally could not vote in the South in your parents' liftimes (and quite possibly your own) and you plant the flag for white men and their utter lack of civil rights.
OT, everybody.
Posted on 12/12/19 at 10:01 pm to AlonsoWDC
Calm down. Y’all get to vote multiple times now
This post was edited on 12/12/19 at 10:16 pm
Posted on 12/12/19 at 10:06 pm to athenslife101
Anytime before A/C.
Posted on 12/12/19 at 10:11 pm to udtiger
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Late 1800s US Reconstruction Era South
Fify
And my family will probably never forgive them for it .... I spit on that statue of Sherman every time I am in NYC in Central Park.
Posted on 12/12/19 at 10:35 pm to athenslife101
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I’d probably say 1500s. Most brutal time period I’ve ever read about. Things like that was human drama at its pinnacle. So many devastating wars. Torture was at its height for common use. Religious and political turmoil unlike anything the world has seen. Poor living conditions.
Eh, no worse than any other pre-modern era. 1300s has already been said, righty so. 1600s had the brutal 30 years war. 1300s has Hundred Years War and Black Death.
Much depends on where you are and how wealthy you are, but no matter what, you’re living without modern medicine, electricity, comforts, and likely not as much food as you’re accustomed to.
Posted on 12/12/19 at 10:46 pm to lsunurse
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Anytime before antibiotics.
Let's throw in Dilantin, Lyrica, Cymbalta, Plaquinil, Plavix, Coumadin, Metoprolol Tartrate, Crestor, Protonix, Benadryl, Robitussin DM, and Working Hands.
Posted on 12/12/19 at 10:50 pm to chinese58
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Anytime before antibiotics.
Shoot, any time before toilet paper was invented is too far back.
Posted on 12/12/19 at 10:53 pm to athenslife101
1347 - 1352
Posted on 12/12/19 at 11:02 pm to athenslife101
During the Black Plague. Scarier than any war.
Posted on 12/12/19 at 11:10 pm to athenslife101
The Jurassic time period looks pretty tough. All the issues of any other time period except fricking dinosaurs
Posted on 12/12/19 at 11:42 pm to scrooster
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think I would have least liked to have lived in Spain during the The Umayyad conquest of Hispania, also known as the Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula or the Umayyad conquest of the Visigothic Kingdom, from 711 to 788.
It has led to so many consequences since and it continues to have consequences to this very day. Bad consequences.
Go on...
Posted on 12/12/19 at 11:49 pm to athenslife101
I always fantasize about the frontier time in America.
Exploring. Roughing it. Horses and cabins and floating on a river and pristine nature and wilderness with genuine human interaction in between. A simpler time with more intrinsic enjoyment.
Also the Wild West too.
Exploring. Roughing it. Horses and cabins and floating on a river and pristine nature and wilderness with genuine human interaction in between. A simpler time with more intrinsic enjoyment.
Also the Wild West too.
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