/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>18401003
>12th-19th centuries.
>Again, please stop being disingenuous.
The middle ages were between the 5th and 15th centuries, not the 12th and 19th.

>infant mortality rates were affected by more than poor hygiene.
Sure, mortality rates in general were influenced by a variety of shitty conditions in medieval times (see >>18400996), but I'm still not hearing about good hygiene.

>most modern religions, especially ones that stem from Abrahamic origins, place washing your hands before you eat as an important ritual
in the dark ages.
[citation needed] Quote me some bible verses, and I'll point out it was illegal for a commoner to even own a bible in those days.

>by no means barbaric and dystopian.
AGAIN, see: >>18400996
It was a horrible time to be alive in Europe.

>Many scientific / medicinal discoveries
NO. ffs. facepalm.jpg. Do you even understand why they were called the dark ages? And why the renaissance was called the renaissance?

>Jainism
There were no fucking Jains in medieval Europe, you absolute Mong.

>Arabic world ... who were very advanced for the time
Compared to Euros? OF FUCKING COURSE. Europe had descended into a Mad-Max style wasteland, but without the gasoline-based residual tech.

>astoundingly rapid progress made by humans in areas of discovery
Pure fiction.