Answer:
a reduction in advancement via science and technology
Step-by-step explanation:
many women were accused to be witches in the past when they were simply intelligent and we're often given inhumane deaths such as hanging, rocks thrown at them while restraint, drowned and burned alive on a wooden beam. others were accused to be vampires and had a brick tied to their mouth and tossed into a body of water to drown, truly a terrible point in history