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You can take that even further as the sewage systems in Europe didn't recover until the 18th/19th century.
by bhaak 6y ago
You can take that even further as the sewage systems in Europe didn't recover until the 18th/19th century.
- bleuarff 6y agoInteresting, can you elaborate?
- bhaak 6y agoThe water supply and sanitation in Europe took a deep dive where the Roman infrastructure broke down. In many places it was rather recently that sanitation was on par or better than in Rome (but of course, not everywhere in the Roman Empire the standards were as high as in the capital). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanitation_in_ancient_Rome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanitation_in_ancient_Rome