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Life wasn’t easy. There were no indoor water systems, streets had garbage, dead animals, feces, and mud. People didn’t take baths so there were a lot of stinky people. Rats were all over the place and,fleas infested everything as well as bedbugs ( modern bedbugs is a recent thing) . Candles were used for light. Poor people had tallow candles that put out an oily smoke while the rich could afford a wax candle. Food wasn’t very good. It was mushy and over cooked. It is one reason people got so excited about spices, but salt was expensive and only the rich had it. In England the land was all ready divided up and fenced or claimed by the crown so people couldn’t hunt on it. That’s one reason when the English were so excited when they saw empty land in the American colonies.

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