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Apartment buildings were often smoky, dark, wet and frequently dirty. The air was filled with the smell of sweat, urine as well as fecal matter. On top of the unpleasant living conditions for early Christians the mice and insects were everywhere in their Greco-Roman apartments. The city streets were not much better with their open sewers, animal manure and crowds in some locations it was so unsatisfactory there were lifeless human corpses forgotten in the streets.
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When cities were in a constant state of filth, pests and crowding, disease was rife in these conditions, precisely when these Roman cultures had no antibiotics or knowledge of germs. Frequently plagues might strike as well as physical sickness and was part of day-to-day life. An instance of this was the analysis of fossilized feces that were located in Jerusalem and showed big volumes of tapeworm and whipworm eggs, which shows unsatisfactory sanitary disorders where humans often came into contact.

Christianity rejuvenated the life-style in Greco-Roman society supplying social change, which dealt with some of the outcomes of urban issues. Charity as well as hope was offered to the homeless and the poor, frequently the cities were full of novices and strangers and Christianity furnished an extended family as well as a base for attachments in addition to successful rescue services in times of misfortune, that were often brought on by plagues, earthquakes as well as fires.

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