• Akasazh@feddit.nl
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    1 year ago

    That’s because the idea of the middle ages attend from the imagination of people in the nineteenth century. This is when people started theorizing about history.

    Cities in the nineteenth century were absolutely filthy, because of industrialization and were busting at the seams.

    Now they learned about this ‘dark ages’ when people were backwards and uneducated. For sure conditions were worse and more filthy collar to our current enlightened society, no?