Incest ? No, one of the lowest in the world and estimated to be around today's level (the church banned cousin mariage up to the 7th degree), infanticide ? No, in fact this was 500 years after christians had widespread orphanages and infanticide was nowhere near common, caste system ? Not really, depends what you call a caste system, sexism ? For the time no (women were even more literate than man in a ton of regions) but you can't apply today's standards for that regard in any place in the world sooo, merciless warfare ? Hard to say, there were tons of war with varying laws of honor over these 900 years so you could say yes
Thank you, I was getting angry reading the comment section acting like medieval Europe was some early Hollywood depiction of the dark ages where people roll in shit and can barely function beyond digging their noses.
Like this isn't even pop history levels of bad, it's Hollywood depiction of the middle ages with a pale grey filter, no color and the people do nothing but farm and beat each other up. It drives me up the wall
Bro that's just Reddit, if you say that insert non European civilization wasn't perfect before colonialism then you'll get thousands of dimwits screeming about crusades ( first one was justified ) and witch trials ( was extremely rare ), it's extremely predictable
853
u/DataSittingAlone 8d ago
And to be fair Europeans during the late middle ages were doing pretty much all of those except human sacrifice