"The road to civilization in Europe has been going for a thousand years. The ignorance, ignorance, dirtyness and darkness of medieval Europe may be beyond the imagination of countless people. This is the worst era in Europe!"
When it comes to medieval Europe, people generally use the word darkness to describe it. In fact, if the word "simple" of medieval Europe is used to describe it, it is really a bit "overestimated" it.
The people's thoughts in medieval Europe were completely imprisoned by religious institutions. The people in medieval Europe were equally poor and could not eat. The war in medieval Europe was even more cruel than that in ancient China.
The stench in medieval Europe reached the level of "level 12". The ladies of medieval Europe even went to the toilet in their skirts. In the medieval European war, the enemy attacked the city and even climbed up the "shit wall". All this is not the plot in the novel, but the real thing that happened in history.
The darkness of medieval Europe was almost "all-inclusive", not only political darkness, religion darkness, thought darkness, and even hygiene darkness. Later generations describe the dirty Europeans in medieval times: the medieval times that have not been washed for thousands of years.
One thousand years of darkness
From the timeline, just when the entire medieval Western Europe was shrouded in darkness, in the pre-dark era of Western Europe, Tang Dynasty was in the golden age of unprecedented prosperity, in the mid-dark era of Western Europe, Song Dynasty GDP was the absolute number one in the world, and in the post-dark era of Western Europe, the Mongolian army at this time had swept the entire Eurasian continent.
Use sentences to some metaphors, If China at this time comes a "down to Europe" and "communicate" with medieval Europe, this scene is like the 19th century Western powers "visit" Qing Dynasty is almost the same scene .
If China really sent a delegation to exchange with medieval Europe at this time, it is estimated that few people are willing to sign up. After all, this hygiene situation is really not ordinary unfriendly!
Although the hygiene index of the Qing Dynasty was also very ugly, compared with medieval Europe, the Qing Dynasty could still confidently say to itself: Itโs pretty good.
God's Will
Medieval Europe was a special period under the dual leadership of royal power and religious power. Even the power of religion was still above the royal power. At this time, Europeans generally believed in Christianity.
Under the long-term ideological confinement of religious institutions, Europeans were completely brainwashed, and the values โโthey believed in were all consciously and arranged instilled into them by religious institutions.
A sentence This is God's will to solve everything . This sentence has made " Crusade " last for a full 200 years. This sentence has made Europe dark for a thousand years, and this sentence has made Europe dirty for a thousand years.
In the darkness of medieval Europe for a thousand years, the hygienic darkness seemed insignificant, but in fact it was a mirror that made Europe pay the greatest price.
It is precisely because of the darkness of the sanitation that caused Black Death , a "nuclear bomb in nature", which has harmed Europe intermittently for 300 years, causing at least 25 million Europeans to die.
You should know that the total population of Europe in the Middle Ages was only tens of millions! This is a bit too expensive!
On the other hand, the darkness of hygiene in is not because of ideological ignorance . Most of the European people in the Middle Ages did not know words and did not have the opportunity to go to school. Under the strong educational authority, ordinary people could not access books at all. Even if they could access books through relationships, they were books used by religious institutions to fool the people.
The lack of education makes Europeans have no correct judgment at all, and all their behaviors are carried out under the guidance of education. As a result, the unique landscape of medieval Europe appeared, and they believed that not taking a bath was the best strategy to resist the Black Death.
They believe that wearing thick clothes is an effective way to resist the spread of diseases. They do not think that going to the toilet anywhere is a shame. They do not think that pouring toilets on the street is a moral inferior, nor do they think that this is an ugly way to pollute the environment and spread the virus.
shit wall
Ironically, the high heels designed in Europe were worn by men just to avoid stepping on toilets all over the floor. The charming perfume is not a fashion, but to cover up the strong smell on the body.
In addition, the aesthetics of medieval Europe made noble ladies wear complex and heavy aristocratic skirts. It took more than an hour to wear such skirts with the help of servants. Therefore, you can imagine what if you want to go to the toilet at a banquet?
plus the ignorant hygiene consciousness at that time, it happened naturally when going to the toilet in the skirt. Such a ridiculous thing is simply unimaginable today.
However, it was a normal thing in that medieval era when civilization completely regressed. There is a saying that public toilets are the civilization of a city. In medieval Europe, the civilization of the entire society revolved around "religion", and religion is the political correctness of everything. Therefore, there are almost no public toilets and no sewers.
They handle toilets in a simple and crude way. They started to fall directly on the street. Later, it was estimated that religious people and nobles could not stand the smell too heavy, so they thought of a new method - to collapse directly into the river and pour it directly outside the city wall.
Over time, this also led to the city wall becoming a "shit wall". It is said that it also caused a joke. After the enemy attacked the city wall, he found that his whole body was smelly.
There are also rumors that at that time, in order to suppress the royal power, the power of the church often provoked the attacks of countries in the medieval era. When some countries attacked their enemies, the city walls were too smelly and had to order their retreat.
Black Death
Speaking of medieval Europe's "not washed for a thousand years" , we have to mention Black Death. From the perspective of modern science, the reason why the Black Death caused tens of millions of deaths.
One reason is naturally because of the backward medical science and technology at that time. On the other hand, it is because the medieval Europeans did not pay much attention to hygiene. If they could take a bath frequently, establish an effective drainage and sewage system, and know how to isolate, then the Black Death would never have such exaggerated consequences.
Sadly, in that era when religion controls everything, they always tried to use the religious power of "nothingness" to treat the Black Death, and used wrong methods and ideas such as not taking a bath or bleeding to resist the Black Death.
Hygiene is an important part of human civilization. It is precisely because Europe in the Middle Ages was a dark and regressive era that there were many magical and unconventional "No Washing Pictures" such as the ladies' skirts, the people did not take a bath, and the toilets were directly poured on the streets, the city walls and the rivers. Europeans spent a thousand years to break through the darkness.
