Medieval Times Vs Society Today

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What would you pick medieval times or society today. I would pick medieval times but think medieval times don’t have medicine that probably didn’t work. And lots of violence back then like the plague.

Society today is better than medieval times. Reasons I think society today is better than medieval times. One reason is that we have medicine unlike medieval times they never had real good medicine that worked in a human body. I mean medicine back then they had cocaine drops for toothaches and they put cocaine drops in market places. Today we have medicine that doesn't always work instantly but it takes about 30 min to kick in to actually work in a human’s body. Also back then people would buy a boatload of medicine to travel with. All my

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