Sanitation practices may have been more developed in the denser regions of Asia than they were in post-Roman Europe.
Anecdotally it feels that way (bathing, certain food handling and disease rituals) from reading historical accounts. I have a parent from each and when they talked about their childhoods (1930s and 1940s), even through war, the differences are stark. But I’m hardly a scholar so this is anecdotal.
Anecdotally it feels that way (bathing, certain food handling and disease rituals) from reading historical accounts. I have a parent from each and when they talked about their childhoods (1930s and 1940s), even through war, the differences are stark. But I’m hardly a scholar so this is anecdotal.