by 1500 we're looking at beginnings of modern economy and a mostly literate professional population of tradesmen and agriculture all enclosure

open field system was long gone

talking about high and late middle ages*

sugar comes along beginning of modern age

it was around for awhile

it was expensive and a way to show off how rich you were

this is the big misconception in sort of vague pop history is idea that feudalism has been present until relatively recently in north western europe, but mechanisation and what led to industrial revolution and modern economy began 500 years ago in england

most people had pretty good teeth except the richer nobles

serfs lived on a borderline starvation diet of grain when they were doing well

not really

people had underdeveloped facial structure and bad teeth because they live off grain

they grew what they needed and gave a percentage in tax

and they weren't able to grow much lol it was subsistence farming with many people living in the equivalent of a dog house

it's a vision of hell lol

they lived in whatever house they built for themselves

there were also castes of serfs and even the highest castes of serfs on most manors lived terrible lives and at best had their own bed

They had a decent degree of freedom

let alone how most people lived sleeping on the floor or outside

depending on what the local laws were

where did you get these ideas from? lol

the only thing they really had to worry about was the taxes which were usually low

hi everybody I am doctor nick

and they had to join the army during war sometimes

what we're discussing still exists in the world today where people live in subsistence farming and you can see it and how awful their lives are

it was far worse back in the feudal system

it only got bad later

when there were too many people

and lots of cities

"the only thing they had to worry about was the taxes"??? they regularly experienced famines and disease wiping out large fractions of their communities lol

not really

that happened later

omg, wtf are you talking about??? the reason that urbanisation happened is because agricultural enclosure produced so much more food

famines basically end when urbanisation begins

cities were the sources of disease

places where animals and humans live in mass and in close proximity

it's called the malthusian trap. england broke free of it first and that's why the economic viabiltiy of mechanisation came about

everything you're saying at this point is just a deluded inversion of basic educaiton in this history

the plagues are just cross species diseases, what makes a cow have the sniffles will kill a human

it almost seems as if you're just making things up to suit some weird agenda you have

diseases aren't really natural