What were the five worst times and places to be alive in human history?
Life is tough now. Everywhere in the world is threatened by the coronavirus. I don’t want in any way to understate the challenges we all face, but maybe we now have the time and motivation to recall that, in the course of human history, things have often been worse, much much worse.
This video suggests five occasions in human history that must be among the worst to have experienced:
- The Black Death in Europe
- The Mongol invasions of China
- The Americas during colonisation
- China during the Great Leap Forward
- Europe in the first half of the 20th century
The video lasts 19 minutes – but you have more time than usually now, don’t you? If you watch it, at the least, you’ll learn some history. At best, you might actually feel better about being alive now.