The Best Time To Be Alive In History Is Up For Debate.

Okay, I admit that the recent years haven't been great. It's safe to say that the 2020s haven't been as blazing as we were expecting so far, whether it be due to COVID-19 and the ensuing lockdowns, the conflict occurring in Europe, or any of the accompanying economic troubles raging around the world.

However, is there ever a finer time to live? Currently, that is being discussed on Twitter after the History In Memes account posed the following query.

Surprisingly, humans still have responses from before the invention of antibiotics, painkillers, and Shrek 2 extended human life. This may be the case because people imagine themselves conversing with Socrates rather than passing away from epidemic typhus as a peasant, as would be expected.

Many respondents said they would like to hang out with Socrates and Aristotle, so ancient Greece was a popular choice. Even while the Ancient Greeks made outstanding contributions to the fields of math, astronomy, philosophy, and medicine and created amazing structures that would later seem so beautiful in the British Museum, most people in Ancient Greece had rather difficult lives.

The majority worked the little farmland in the villages or the rural areas.

According to historians Estelle Galbois and Sylvie Rougier-Blanc writing for Brewminate, "Greek society's view of the poor was frequently critical and excluded them: the poor were considered to have low morality and the degradation of insecurity and impiety." They stole sacrifices presented to the gods, robbed altars, told lies, and would do anything to get enough to live."

Despite this, you might perform socially here better than in earlier periods of history.

"The impoverished occupied open places in cities, such as public porches and porches and thresholds of residences, but there is no literary or epigraphic evidence to suggest that laws were passed to evict them.

Even the poorest could preserve some sort of social life by regularly using public restrooms or by routinely congregating close to temples. They were sort of partially merged as polis figures.

Your position determines how miserable it would be to live in those times, just like it does in every other culture. Being pharaoh Pepi II is evidently acceptable as opposed to the slaves Pepi II used to smother in honey to keep flies away from his supper.

Your life may be difficult, but not to the extent you might think if your motivation for choosing Egypt was to assist in building the pyramids. Contrary to popular belief, slaves did not construct them. Following the discovery of a worker's hamlet and cemetery on the Khafre and Menkaure pyramids in the 1990s, the general belief today is that they were constructed by paid laborers.

The laborers' burial practices—in mud-brick tombs with beer and bread for the afterlife—and the construction sites' closeness to the pyramids indicate that the employees were compensated.

Their diet was high in protein, which was unheard of at the period, according to an examination of their remains. Broken bones had apparently been reset, and one victim even had his leg removed before living another 14 years, indicating that they had received medical attention.

According to Hawas, tests on a third skeleton revealed what may be the earliest evidence of syphilis and a fourth skeleton's hand was discovered in splints. Long considered to have been capable of executing difficult medical procedures, such as difficult births and brain surgery, the ancient Egyptians.

According to Hawas, 600 bones from two pyramid builders' cemeteries have been unearthed and tested. Twelve skeletons in total had splints on their hands, which were likely hurt by pebbles.

These people did not work as slaves to build the pyramids. They held jobs. He added that slaves would not have received this level of care. According to Hawas, the workmen were given permission to erect miniature mud-brick pyramids over their own burials.

One person regressed even farther to a time before language as if communication was much easier when one had to screech to warn another person they were in danger from an animal attack rather than, for instance, asking someone to pass the olives or what civilization they'd want to be from online.