3000 years? Is that so?
Eh yes ! the birth of Moses being estimated in 1392 before the Christian era as we can estimate the period of Vercingétorix or Charlemagne.
I think that the health situation of the majority of humanity (access to drinking water and minimum hygiene) is currently comparable to that of "developed" countries ... not 3000 years ago but it 300 years ago ...
Your reaction is understandable! The history of other countries like those of North Africa, and in general the entire Mediterranean basin, is little known to us and, unfortunately, for centuries French culture has really been in the dark compared to Indian or Greek culture. , then Muslim with very developed sciences such as astronomy, medicine and surgery, mathematics, writing, etc ... whereas among us few even knew how to read and write.
The Hebrew culture is found in this region of intellectual and metaphysical openness and therefore of progress in the field of hygiene and medicine including Hippocrates, well known, following in this other masters in these areas (this already 2500 years!)
http://medarus.org/Medecins/MedecinsTex ... crate.htmlOur light period is like a night out on the whole of our country (more generally the countries north of the Mediterranean basin) having lasted for millennia.
but it only concerned a small part of humanity. Hygiene is therefore not 300 years old but well, at least 3.000 years which could have prevented millions of deaths in epidemics which have crossed the centuries.!
"We make science with facts, like making a house with stones: but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a pile of stones is a house" Henri Poincaré