It ought not to be forgotten that harsh suffering, of a sort unimaginable to residents of the first world today, wasn't exceptional but rather common and familiar to nearly everybody in these time. The 1600's were brutal and vicious and nothing would change for the better until well into the 1800's. The 1800's was called the golden epoch because things actually began to be sort of acceptable and nice for a noticeable proportion of the population. Not all of them, or even most of them...just enough to see that a difference had been made.
It ought not to be forgotten that harsh suffering, of a sort unimaginable to residents of the first world today, wasn't exceptional but rather common and familiar to nearly everybody in these time. The 1600's were brutal and vicious and nothing would change for the better until well into the 1800's. The 1800's was called the golden epoch because things actually began to be sort of acceptable and nice for a noticeable proportion of the population. Not all of them, or even most of them...just enough to see that a difference had been made.