The first efforts to treat the mentally ill with kindness and guidance occurred in what year

The correct answer should be 1793.

Before that year, they were commonly mistreated and often hurt by their family. Sometimes people believed that the illness was due to a sin in the family and that it was god's punishment, while some more radicalized nations would put them on ships and push them to the middle of the ocean where they would die very quickly.

Herodotus taught that absolute right and wrong did exist.