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They can mostly not worry about starvation, and have internet access, and they have some access to flush toilets and showers. What are you talking about? Incan
by jimmywanger 10y ago
They can mostly not worry about starvation, and have internet access, and they have some access to flush toilets and showers.
What are you talking about? Incan kings slept on stone shelves and covered themselves with poorly tanned animal pelts, and were at the mercy of insects and crop fluctuations. They didn't have modern sewage systems or vaccinations.
- sp332 10y agoThey have notoriously poor access to showers. http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/04/01/san-jose-approves-mobile-showers-for-homeless-looks-to-new-housing-projects-2/ http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/04/01/san-jose-approves-mobi...
- jimmywanger 10y agoHence "some access". A king 1000 years ago would have no conception of what a shower is. They would take baths, but even then, that'd be a seasonal/yearly thing.
- sp332 10y agoMaybe Incan kings were just not very good. European cities had massive public baths right through the middle ages, "and private domestic baths... were hardly unknown to the Romans". https://books.google.com/books?id=KKrhJ9BbMkkC&lpg=PA63&ots=ABGJkGhS4k&dq=bathing%20in%201000%20AD&pg=PA61#v=onepage&q=bathing%20in%201000%20AD&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=KKrhJ9BbMkkC&lpg=PA63&ots=...