When and where was it the worst place to live? I know the most straightforward answer would be in a warzone or any time period where slaves were kept, but I'm curious about where the average bloke had it the worst.
My vote goes to the first agricultural settlements
>Have to work the fields with extremely primitive tools and with near wild seed stock
>Very poor nutrition due to most food being starchy crops
>No one really understands what we're doing
>Crowd diseases develop and strike for perhaps the first time in history
>You literally live worse than yout hunter-gatherer grandparents but cannot stop because by now there's so much people they will all starve to death if the harvest fails
bumping for interest
Central Asia / Eastern Europe circa 1200's.
>>1160424
On top of this I'd also argue that anywhere in Italy during the Bubonic Plague, as well as being a Native American (maybe Aztecs) during the Great Dying caused by smallpox and Spanish subjugation
I think the worst place in the modern world has to be Goma, a Congolese city bordering Rwanda
>center of a massive refugee crisis following the Rwandan Genocide, the refugees being the people who had committed the genocide rather than the victims
>epicenter of first and second Congo wars
>half destroyed by a volcano
>surrounding countryside is filled with child-killing invisible poison death clouds
>located on the shore of a lake that will probably explode and kill everyone
For more recent history
>China in the Cultural Revolution
>Belarus or Poland in WW2
>Aleppo, or any populated city in Syria now
>North Korean countryside
Older history
>Anywhere the Mongols targeted
>Wallachia with Vlad the Impaler
>Native Americans when they were at war with eachother or the colonists
>One of the small tribes the Aztec slaughtered
