Nigs gonna nog

think of the screeching if you did bring that up at black history month

I bring it up every time people bitch about slavery in the us. "If it wasnt for a black man the US might have kept their indentured servitude model instead."

i always bring up the ottomans

the barbary pirates

the fact that blacks sold slaves to whites

@Goblin_Slayer_Floki the dress is wrong. Either that or the dates privided

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/horrible-fate-john-casor-180962352/

the picture does not matter that much

like i said before

No it isnt. Not everyone dressed exactly the same everywhere.

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i was listening to podcast that said how medieval peasants being malnourished in childhood affected them psychosocially so that they acted less independent in later life

because of this, nobility thought of peasants as a different race

because they were factually psychologically different

and behaved in a way that was more dependent on others

just thought it was interesting

Seems interesting

But this ignores the social, religious and philosophical norms of the Era

That and environmental. Especially in the dark ages, but also standard middle ages. It was a fight for survival, so if someone promised protection that was one less thing the peasantry had to deal with.

well the era was 10th century ad

@Goblin_Slayer_Floki malnourishment is environment, no?

10th century wasn't all that known for its philosophy, mostly just being right at the end of the 'dark ages' for europe

beginning of feudalism basically

10th century was the best time to be alive

you had freedom

and clean air

and eight dead children by the time you reached middle age at 14

that is a small price to pay

for freedom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqPZFXTWi8k&list=WL&index=282&t=0s

@desert hamster tenth century sucked, it was the beginning of feudalism, so feudalism was pretty bad - there was often too many obligations that the peasants paid their lord

Like people today don't have obligations

Lol

it only adjusted to leniency later - people were poorer because there was less trade from towns, towns hadn't growth to the size they would by 1300

I think people overestimate the suck of feudalism

Or attribute externalities to the political system

working for free doesn't suck?

They didn't work for free. They had all sorts of checks and balances to prevent abuse of the peasantry.

There's accounts of lords being 'sued' in a sense in the HRE

It's much more nuanced than you're led to believe

yeah there was less checks and balances in the 10th century id say