Worst Historical Periods to Live In

The Top Ten
1 Middle Ages

The black death, witch hunters, the battle of hastings, the hundred year war, it was a very bad and dangerous time to be alive during the middle ages

Also when everyone used the rudest names of streets in Britain and didn't think of them as swear words.

2 Stone Age
3 World War II

May I disagree? It was a far slower-paced, calmer, less selfish and more romantic era, where the horrors of the war brought people together and helped each other. Every one was equal; even the rich were rashioned.

My great grandmothers house was bombed in the Blitz.

4 World War I
5 Industrial Revolution
6 Wild West

Could be better if time machines to the past existed and Americans who believe "guns are for protection" and send them to the Wild West where they belong.

7 Golden Age of Piracy

I have to disagree here... The only way this would be a bad time to live is if you were either a merchant being plundered at sea or a pirate being caught and hanged

8 Ancient Egypt

We only look at the Pharaohs, what they worshipped, hieroglyphics, pyramids and mummy's etc.
But just think of everyone else.

9 Georgian Era
10 South African Apartheid Era
The Contenders
11 Stalin's Russia
12 Chinese Cultural Revolution
13 Victorian Era
14 2017
15 Rwandan Genocide
16 Black Death
17 Vietnam War

Definitely some issues happening, but the music was the best ever.

18 Cambodian Genocide
19 The Great Depression
20 The Renaissance
21 Congo Free State
22 Armenian Genocide
23 Jamestown, Virginia
24 Syrian Civil War
25 Jurassic Period

Imagine how it would feel like for people to live when the dinosaurs were around?

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