Were the Middle Ages or the Early Modern Period worse?

[Higgins]

The Early Modern Period saw the rise of witch hunts, colonization, and slavery.

Witch hunts happened in the medieval period. So did events like Spain casting all the Jews out of their Kingdom, and England doing the same in I believe the 1300s.

Colonization and slavery go as far back as Ancient Egypt if not even earlier than that. I mean, remember, the Jews were Egyptian slaves.

The Roman Empire were colonizers and slavers, as were the Ancient Greeks.

The African Nations and Europeans of the early Modern Period did not create slavery, they just continued it and made it worse and made it even more perverse. And you really only start to see African Americans as going from indentured servants (which were a class that even their fellow whites of lower economic standing could find themselves in) who had a chance of freedom, to becoming true slaves, around the dawning of the Enlightenment era in the later 1600s and early 18th century.

[Higgins]

The Early Modern Period saw the rise of witch hunts, colonization, and slavery.

Witch hunts happened in the medieval period. So did events like Spain casting all the Jews out of their Kingdom, and England doing the same in I believe the 1300s.

Colonization and slavery go as far back as Ancient Egypt if not even earlier than that. I mean, remember, the Jews were Egyptian slaves.

The Roman Empire were colonizers and slavers, as were the Ancient Greeks.

The African Nations and Europeans of the early Modern Period did not create slavery, they just continued it and made it worse and made it even more perverse. And you really only start to see African Americans as going from indentured servants (which were a class that even their fellow whites of lower economic standing could find themselves in) who had a chance of freedom, to becoming true slaves, around the dawning of the Enlightenment era in the later 1600s and early 18th century.

Witch hunts were basically non-existent until the mid-15th century. They were by and large an Early Modern Era thing. (in Europe)

England expelled the Jews in 1290, but Spain did that exactly on the year that conventionally separates the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period i.e. in 1492.

Slavery was not invented by people in the Early Modern Period, yes, but it must be said that slavery was not a thing in Western Europe in the High-to-Late Middle Ages.

Slavery was present in the High to Late Middle Ages, actually. It just isn't as covered and also wasn't as institutionalized as later slavery.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_medieval_Europe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_slave_trade

Serfdom was a more popular institution. Which in in it's own way was not that different from slavery or at least indentured servitude as basically your entire existence operated around the tender mercies of your Lord, and there wasn't much room for upward mobility beyond what you were born into. They were given food and a meager wage.