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If we compare daily life of citizens in the city of Uruk, in Mesopotamia, in the year 3000 BC, with the daily life of citizens in the city of London, England, in the year 1700 AD, what would be the differences, besides language and religion?
Ignoring the obvious differences in language and religion, what else was different in the daily life of London, 4700 years later, compared to life in Uruk in 3000 BC?
If a citizen of Uruk in the year 3000 BC who was a polyglot and had good skills in learning languages from other peoples somehow time traveled into 1700 AD, and for some reason he ended up in London, how fast would he adapt to life in London in 1700 AD?
If a citizen of Uruk in the year 3000 BC who was a polyglot and had good skills in learning languages from other peoples somehow time traveled into 1700 AD, and for some reason he ended up in London, how fast would he adapt to life in London in 1700 AD?
and a second question: if after a few years living in London starting in 1700 AD, when he was already adapted to life in London of that time, he somehow time traveled again, but this time only 310 years, and arrived in the same city of London, but in the current decade, would this guy ever adapt to modern life?
Some things were common to both Uruk in 3000 BC and London, 4700 years later:
- No sewer system
- No street lights
- No electricity in homes or offices
- No factories
- No cars, no trains
- Before Elementary Education Act from 1870, London had no schools for all children, probably like Uruk in 3000 BC
- No typewriters, not to mention computers
- No photography
- No telegraphy
The biggest difference is the worldview of the average Briton had expanded tremendously compared to 4700 years earlier. No longer was it limited to just the few square miles around Uruk and maybe tales from traders. By 1700 the renaissance had already spread through Europe, along with innovations in science. First and foremost was the development of the printing press. Then the compass enabled world travel and trade, particularly to the far east and North America. Firearms were developed. Advancements in metallurgy enabled developments in tools and architecture - just about everything. No longer were people limited to eating from stone and pottery utensils. Healthcare was still crude but have developed drastically based on more knowledge of the human anatomy and such developments as the microscope.
The way of life in London in the early XVIII century and nowadays
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Originally Posted by Old Gringo
Our lives in today's industrialized society are more unlike the lives of 1700 London that their lives were like prehistoric societies.
The Industrial Revolution is the biggest single demarcation point in human experience.
I would say there are many the same attributes in the mode of life in 1700 AD and 2018 AD. What about the clothes? In 1700 AD men were wearing boots, trousers, hats. As I know hats aren't in men fashion now. Meanwhile none forbid you to wear a hat (though without peacock's feathers ). Here women have more refined style and more often wear hats now.
Food? Our food is more diverse now as it was three hundred years ago but almost all former dishes are actual. The same we can say about music. There are many masterpieces in the music of Renaissance. These melodies are understandable for us, simple and good to listen. They are harmonic and can steady our nerves .
Uruk in 3000 BC belongs to the New Stone Age, rather it was between the Stone Age and the Bronze age because the citizens were able to melt metal.
Was the mode of life in Uruk very similar to the mode of life in the Indian cities of the Latin America?
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The way of life in London in the early XVIII century and nowadays
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