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Apart from the fact that being alive as opposed to being dead feels and has always felt about the same for anyone, the specific circumstances of what life was like in 1517 depend a lot on who and where you are. Here's a short list of people who were alive in 1517:

  • A young peasant farmer living near Avignon, France.
  • A middle-aged civil servant working in the Revenue Ministry in Peking.
  • The twelve-year-old daughter of a Persian trader living in Zanzibar.
  • A girl in her late teens serving in the harem of the Topkapi palace in Istanbul.
  • An Incan priest of Pachamama.
  • A poor middle-aged widow living in Calicut, India.
  • A prosperous carpenter living in Timbuktu under the Songhai Empire.
  • A twenty-year old Micmac wife and mother living on the shores of the St. Lawrence River.
  • An elderly monk in the monastery of San Juan de los Reyes in Toledo, Spain.
  • Hedwig, the four-year-old daughter of King Sigismund of Poland.
  • A young Kazakh boy, part of a nomadic tribe.

Do you think life was the same for all of them?

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