ive often wondered how it would have been to live in the caveman, roman, knights in armor, pirates, cowboy, etc era. for me the scariest would probably be the cowboy era with the nagging question of what kind/how much water to give my horse.....
what era would have been the scariest to live in?
- Thread starter turbomazda
- Start date
- Status
Earth during the plagues comes to mind. ca 1200-1300 AD.
However if you survived, life was good after all the dieing was over and bodies gone. Plenty of land and food.
However if you survived, life was good after all the dieing was over and bodies gone. Plenty of land and food.
Hahahahahahaha
It's relative. It would suck to be living in Darfur right now.
The Dark Ages were pretty scarey for Europe, while I wouldn't be thrilled to be a Native American during the 18th and 19th century.
The Bronze and Iron Ages were probably not very pleasant.
A person's socio-economic status would have a lot to do with how scaery things were. Being a peasant or a slave in any era wouldn't be very much fun.
The Dark Ages were pretty scarey for Europe, while I wouldn't be thrilled to be a Native American during the 18th and 19th century.
The Bronze and Iron Ages were probably not very pleasant.
A person's socio-economic status would have a lot to do with how scaery things were. Being a peasant or a slave in any era wouldn't be very much fun.
I would agree with MarKC about relativity; A 1930's European Jew probably wouldn't have cared much about how bad the plague was....
On the other hand dude dying from the plague wouldn't care too much about the Holocaust.
WWII to early 1980s when the USSR started sagging.
Mass media and instant radio reports, coupled with newsreels really help spread the horror. I figure before WWII people were so busy just staying alive and keeping the farm running, they were more detatched.
Bay of Pigs was probably the epitome of this tension.
Mutually Assured Destruction, when the world is simply dust in space, beats any terrorism/bird flu thing where there's hope of survival off in the boonies.
Mass media and instant radio reports, coupled with newsreels really help spread the horror. I figure before WWII people were so busy just staying alive and keeping the farm running, they were more detatched.
Bay of Pigs was probably the epitome of this tension.
Mutually Assured Destruction, when the world is simply dust in space, beats any terrorism/bird flu thing where there's hope of survival off in the boonies.
- Joined
- Jun 2, 2003
- Messages
- 23,587
Give me a time machine and I'll find out where and when is most scary to me.
The Dark Ages were probably the worse time in Europe. The plague alone probably killed about half the population of Europe. And there were all of the other terrible things as well. Compared to all of that World War II was like a relatively minor event.
It does depend on your point of view and it is all relative. For Jewish people the murder of Jews in World War II was huge. Disease following the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs probably killed 90% of the native peoples who were living in what is today Mexico. The natives had no immunity to the European diseases.
The world of today has its own major problems and there are some very evil people in the modern world. But compared to some of the things that have happened in the past we are actually reasonably civilized today. At least in the world as a whole. In some individual countries throughout the world conditions have been as bad as anything seen in the past.
I would have to say that the human race still has a long ways to go before it can be considered truly civilized. Our technology has become much better, but our behavior towards each other is still lacking.
It does depend on your point of view and it is all relative. For Jewish people the murder of Jews in World War II was huge. Disease following the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs probably killed 90% of the native peoples who were living in what is today Mexico. The natives had no immunity to the European diseases.
The world of today has its own major problems and there are some very evil people in the modern world. But compared to some of the things that have happened in the past we are actually reasonably civilized today. At least in the world as a whole. In some individual countries throughout the world conditions have been as bad as anything seen in the past.
I would have to say that the human race still has a long ways to go before it can be considered truly civilized. Our technology has become much better, but our behavior towards each other is still lacking.
Today and tomorrow, and the day after even worse.
We are on the edge.
I have joy and hope, but for many, it will be Heck on Earth.
We are on the edge.
I have joy and hope, but for many, it will be Heck on Earth.
You don't have to wait for that, it's already that way for millions right now.
Any period before we discovered how to refine crude oil.
Being African American, from the Mayflower to current. Even the laws in this country may not protect us like other people here. We run the risk everyday we walk out the front door..
Lord bless America, even with our problems we're still a GREAT country!
Lord bless America, even with our problems we're still a GREAT country!
I was at Vandenberg AFB during the Cuban missile crisis. Having participated in nuclear weapons testing, I have an awareness of the horror of thermonuclear detonations that few share. At any rate, suddenly trucks with jeep escorts and sirens blaring were screaming down the roads and loudspeakers were telling all contractors to leave the base immediately. The trucks were transporting nuclear warheads to the missile silos since missiles at that base were not normally armed. I got on a bus to my car and headed for the hills, literally. I often wonder if arming the missiles was a colossal bluff, or we were really ready to let armageddon start. I can tell you, I was terrified!
African American and the Mayflower?
Who poisoned you?
Who poisoned you?
- Status
Similar threads
