FREE ESSAY ON MEDEVAL LIFE

MEDEVAL LIFE

Medieval towns were very small, leaving very little room for expanding, therefore the
roads, and the houses were very small. Since the houses were made out of wood and were so
close together the risk of a big fire was great because the fires were always in the
house. Even though the town was built so close together that wasn't the worst part. Since
the people back then had not come out with water and sewage systems, people threw out all
their waste into the middle of the street where other people could get infected by the
smell of the by-products. Pigs were the only garbage cleaners; they would go around and
eat all of the by-products. Another part of life in the city was the pollution that
inhabited all of the air; the people on the towns would go threw the streets and breathe
all of the air. Thus causing a lot of sickness. So, basically living in the city was not
a good thing.
Living in the countryside also has its ups and downs. By living in the countryside people
had better air than the people in the cities had also people didn't have to worry about
being polluted by all the trash that was lying around. Since there was space in the
countryside the people built their houses away from each other, by people doing that the
people reduced the chance of fires spreading a destroying a whole city. But one problem
that was constant with the problem of the people in the cities was that the water was
still polluted by all the waste that all the people put into the river or the ground. One
problem that the countryside people had that city people didn't have was that the
countryside people didn't have any defense from the enemies. But the people in the cities
did.
If I was to choose whether to live in the countryside or in the towns I would choose to
live in the countryside because the death rate in the cities was probably higher than the
death rate in the countryside. If I were going to die, I would rather die by fighting
than die by smelling other people's trash and feces.