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The wildness of the Middle Ages | how new people settled after the disaster
Officially, European civilization began with the Roman Empire. The Romans built public toilets, public baths, thermes, roads, bridges, and dams.
Then, for some inexplicable reason, Europe plunged into the darkness of the Middle Ages. Here's some information about what happened in Europe during the Middle Ages.
Night pots were emptied out of windows, often onto the heads of passersby, which led to the invention of wide-brimmed hats.
The familiar gesture of men tipping their hats to women originally meant shaking off the dirt from their hats, as impurities flowed through the streets,
leading to the invention of high-heeled shoes and elevated platforms for walking. They even came up with contraptions for strolling in the streets.
Domestic animals like horses, cows, and pigs lived in cities, adding manure to already dirty towns. Medieval travelers describing Paris noted that the stench from the city spread for several kilometers.
Not only the common people, but also officials, degenerated. In castles, they held endless balls and feasts. An ordinary pastime for them was flea hunting on themselves and their table neighbors.
Lovers wore special amulets around their necks to keep a flea from their beloved person on their chest. Ladies carried small dogs with them so that fleas would jump to the dog, as dogs have a higher body temperature.
Lice and syphilis, which almost everyone suffered from at the time, led to baldness, and wigs were invented to conceal the lack of hair....
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