The average Ancient Roman (circa B.C., give or take several millenium) woman's life expectancy was only 30 years, 40 max.
I understand their life was physically much harder than ours, they didn't have vaccinations and HMO's, and they (except the royalty) had to work their arses off every day (no washing machines, of course), and they enjoyed all sorts of sexual/reproductive diseases/injuries/sicknesses and produced one baby per year from their 12th birthday to the day they died....if a woman was healthy, free of sickness/injury, why the short life span?
And why do we live so long now in comparison (besides the obvious, like better nutrition and prenatal care)?
2006-12-27
01:44:51
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