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  • Much shorter.
  • Shorter. We have longer lifespans on average because of improved nutrition and medical care.
  • Shorten life spans. The technology during those times are very basic than what we have today. The people in the past used herbal medicines, or did not practice a formal way of medicine. The cultures and their way of life protrained to having a culture and to survive. Basically, the medicine and/or medical fields were not as expansive as it is today.
  • Shorter, because now we have medication for diseases and such. Back then they did not have those things.
  • much shorter being in your late forties was seen as old
  • Definitely shorter. Except for a few disaster areas, human life spans have been rising steadily all across the world for the past few centuries. However, the big change was the invention and installation of decent sanitation in the mid 19th century, and discovery of antibiotics in the mid 20th century. But dozens of other inventions have added to human life spans over the past centuries. In the two longest studies, of Japanese and Swedish women, life expectancy has risen by about a third of a year per year over the last century.
  • They live slightly shorter lifespans.Though some deseases have been eradicated,the environmental changes with pollution,vitamins in the soil are depleted and vegetables have little nutritional value as they had in the past.Everyday stress in the modern world shortens the lifespan.We live only a few years longer than our ancestors,so few that it is insignificant.
  • Shorter in North America, but this varies from country to country.
  • "Humans by Era Average Lifespan (years) Comment Neanderthal 20 Homo neanderthalensis is a similar species of modern humans but is still in any case a fellow member of the genus Homo. Upper Paleolithic 33 At age 15: 39 (to age 54)[3][4][5] Neolithic 20 Bronze Age 18[6] Classical Greece 28 Classical Rome 28 Medieval Britain 33 End of 19th Century Western Europe 37 Current world average 67" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy#Timeline_for_humans
  • depends on how long ago we're talkin' Biblical standpoint: in Bible times a man named methusela lived to be 900 years old, but that was outstanding,really ppl lived to be an average of 300 years(but would u really wanna see 300 years of life, life sux) after the flood though people lived shorter, somewhere between 25 to 30 until the renaisance then it was 40 it grew longer and longer until we are now. 68 to 74
  • It is quite common for us to read and accept without too much questioning, that people today live much longer, on average, than people in the past. For example I read that Wikepedia states the following: Humans by Era Average Lifespan Neanderthal 20 Bronze Age 18 Classical Greece 28 Classical Rome 28 Medieval Britain 33 End of 19th Century Western Europe 37 Current world average 67 In his short, but classic work “The Greeks”, the late Emeritus Professor of Greek H.D.F. Kitto, (Bristol University) challenged the view that the Greeks had a short lifespan (average age of 28 according to Wikipedia above) as follows: - He set down, at random, the following names: Aeschylus 71 (accidental death) Sophocles 91 Euripides 78 Aristophanes 60 (at least) Socrates 70 (executed) Plato 87 Isocrates 98 Gorgias 95(?) Protagoras 70 (shipwreck) Xenophon 76 Agesilaus, 80 (at least) Vigorous old age seems to have been commoner in Greece than in any modern country.” In his book “A Brief History of the Anglo Saxons” Geoffrey Hindley writes: “Given the general assumption that medieval people had very short lifespans a word about ages may be in order. The indomitable Wilfred of York lived to be 76; Willibald, the English born bishop of Eichstatt 86; His brother Wynnebald, abbot of Heidenheim, died in his 60s and their sister St Walburga, who succeeded him as head of the abbey, was verging on 70. The sweet natured Lioba, abbess of Tauberbisschofsheim died aged about 80 and Boniface himself died not from natural causes, but as a martyr of a pagan raiding party aged at about 78” Here is a point: – I have never read anything written at any time in the past which expresses astonishment or even mild surprise that anyone managed to live beyond their 30s. And by the way, who worked out that the Neanderthal had a lifespan of 20? Is it, I wonder, as accurate as the 28 year lifespan of the Greeks? How much of these ‘averages’ are reliant on infant mortality figures and, in any case, how accurate would these be? Andrew Tardios

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