HISTORY
MEDIEVAL CHRISTIAN EUROPE
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Question
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City life was extremely sanitary, empty, and clean.
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City life was extremely unsanitary, empty, and polluted.
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City life was extremely sanitary, crowded, and clean.
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City life was extremely unsanitary, crowded, and polluted.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Disease and Treatment Medieval towns were crowded, noisy, and dirty. Diseases spread rapidly, and many people could not be cured with the medical knowledge of the time.
Detailed explanation-2: -She points out that in a medieval city with a population of 10, 000, people typically produced 900, 000 litres of excrement and nearly three million litres of urine annually. This was before such cities had underground sewage systems.
Detailed explanation-3: -Medieval towns were vibrant hubs of activity, housing an array of people from political and spiritual leaders to traders, craftsmen, inn-keepers and brothel owners. Here, Dr Alixe Bovey explores what went on inside city walls. Medieval writers were unsure about towns.
Detailed explanation-4: -Most peasants lived in tiny one-or two-room thatched cottages with walls made of wattle and daub (woven strips of wood covered with a mixture of dung, straw, and clay). They owned nothing themselves. Everything, including their animals, their homes, their clothes, and even their food, belonged to the lord.