When and where in the past could you reasonable have the best, safest live before the 1700s?
When and where in the past could you reasonable have the best, safest live before the 1700s?
Jacob Gutierrez
Lucas Long
Comfiest life would be Ming China
Liam Murphy
Being a landed farmer in an inner roman Provence would be comfy as fuck
Noah Cox
>living in the gayest era possible
Angel Miller
Made for Big Byzantine Cock
Jeremiah Howard
South Pacific island that is too small to have like more than one tribe and two remote to have raiders easily find it
Jace Ortiz
>tfw you will never be a filthy stinkin rich Palmyrene trader, ripping off outsiders and selling cool shit all day
Hunter Young
>implying hunter gatherer societies aren't extremely violent
you might stand a better chance of avoiding smallpox though
Logan Wilson
Being a Venetian merchant playing all side for that sweet sweet gold
Nolan Ramirez
How was Rome gayer than Greece?
Christian Rogers
Neolithic Vancouver Island
Kevin Robinson
A wealthy merchant living in Amsterdam. The Dutch had the greatest religious and political freedoms in Europe at the time, were incredibly wealthy and since their empire was a maritime one they weren't constantly fighting large land wars.
Brandon Diaz
Weren’t they the bloodiest of the colonizers? I’ve heard horror stories about the Dutch East India Company.
Josiah Brown
No, the Belgians were. But that's probably because Belgians aren't even really people to begin with.
Jayden Cox
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Eli Robinson
Edo, Japan, late 1600s.
Ayden Sanchez
Ancient Crete, 1600 BC
>Wealthy island and trading power
>Largest world navy at its peak
>Highest living standards in the Ancient Era, they had clay plumbing and flushing toilets, luxuries not available to European nobility until the 1700s AD
>Little evidence of revolts or internecine warfare
>Almost universal literacy
>No slavery
>Society devoted to trade, sports, fashion, and ludic activities
>Gave birth to the legend of Atlantis
Comfy af
David Williams
Didn't women walk with their tits out in Crete?
Connor Ross
La Belgique est un non-pays
Ethan Ross
DO IT AGAIN AURELLIAN!
Carter Sanchez
Another bonus.
Parker Thomas
Being a merchant or other middle class ottoman in the 15th or 16th century might be pretty comfy.
>wars are far away
>biggest trade route known to man passes through your neighbourhood
>the empire is booming which is good for business
John Wood
Roman empire. You could walk anywhere and be under Roman law.
Christian Walker
nope, gdp per capita sucked and the government were knobs, moreso than usual for the era