Comment by RcouF1uZ4gsC
4 years ago
> Once you reached 20, your life expectancy was a bit lower than today, but it was common for people to reach 60.
If you were a man. If you were a woman, there was still the high risk of maternal mortality. Add to that the large number of births, and a significant amount of women died during pregnancy/birth/post-birth.
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