How safe were streets in the ancient world? Were people

>>1667741
reckon they had gated communities in caesars rome?

>>1667741

"In the ancient world" covers thousands of years of history over the entire planet, so of course it varied a lot like everything else.

But despite that we can still say "a lot less safe than us," since modern industrialized countries are the safest societies ever by a wide margin.

>in the ancient world?
Elaborate

>>1667741
Which part of the ancient world?

In ancient Rome travelling around in the day was dangerous due to the poorly maintained dirt streets, people throwing piss pots out of windows (seriously this was a major cause of accidents), high amount of traffic and thieves. At night it was even more dangerous due to a lack of street lighting.

Antiquity tended not to have anything approaching a police force, the Roman vigiles were somewhat approaching a town watch at least but were still not particular effective.

The potential for riots was fairly common, Rome and other flashpoint cities like Antioch and Alexandria had their own dedicated anti-riot soldiers. Bread riots in the event of famine were very common, so it would be safe to be off the streets in the event of that.

they smelled of weed marijuana

>>1668632
did u call the praetorian gaurd on them?

>>1667758
An industrialized country like Russia or South Africa is much, much, much more violent than a band of Eskimos 1000 years ago.

>>1668162
OP should read The Golden Ass

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Riots

Riots everywhere

>>1669345
>your waifu will never humiliate you and all of your advisors into staying and defending your city-state

>>1668162

>mfw not lving in a world where piss pot related deaths are more common than murders

>>1669255
While that is true, its also a meaningless comparison. OP talks about streets and houses, which implies towns or cities

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>>1667746
>reckon they had gated communities in caesars rome?

I dunno about caesar's rome but it was definitely a thing.

The royal quarter is a closed quarter.

>>1667741
Don't know about antiquity but the Middle Ages had a staggeringly high violent crime rate. Like beyond Detroit tier.

People rarely left their home villages yes out of fear from beasts and elements, but ESPECIALLY dangerous criminals lurking for prey

>>1668162
Why would you not just pour the piss pot out?

>>1671042
by the 1600's after 400 years of systematically hanging violent criminals, the murder rate had declined to basically zero. we have detailed accounts of this.

the exact same thing happened in china and was documented by their ministers around the year 1000 or so

>>1671069
I'm interested. Source?

>>1671069
Rome had 0 crime rate, Soldiers were police and were practically owners of the places they were in, if you were a free man you were a soldier and thus could slay plebian theives.

>>1671042
https://youtu.be/oKr_Fsg6GZA
We need crime dramas in a historical setting that touch more on the subject the way it was portrayed in season 2 of Rome.

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>>1667741
Don't listen to those pro-gladius nutjobs, Rome is the safest it's ever been!

>>1669264
I agree. Probably the best way to get a feel on day to day life in the Roman world despite it being a fiction novel filled with slave fucking and magic.