Empire of the Siberian Flaming Eskimos wrote:I just calculated it assuming the human max was 80. As for the mental development, I had no idea that was even a thing.
It was for Tolkien, whether or not it is for this RP may be another question.
Saleon wrote:*pulls out history facts*Woodstovia wrote:I don't think there were too many 80 year olds knocking about in the middle ages
Actually, that is false. The average life span being ~20 was not indicative of the life span of most people. The thing that screwed up the age was the high number of infant mortality, bubonic plague, and other factors. It was commonplace for people to live a long and fruitful life if they came to be 20, even. Old age was not a myth, though the high mortality rates did cause 16 to be the age people would marry of their kids, quite pessimistically I might add.
Nonesense. We can't just take away all the factors of medieval life that meant people didn't generally live to be eighty and then conclude they lived as long as in the modern period. That makes no sense. All those factors apply and life expectancy in the medieval period, even when we consider child mortality, death in childbirth, war and ill health (which we can't) was only around fifty.
*pulls out more history facts for no reason other to argue for the sake of arguing*Saleon wrote:Much lower, even if infant mortality was ignored stuff like fucked up diets and bad medicine would heavily stunt your life span. In the early 1900s like 90% of applicants to the British army were rejected because their health was so bad. Imagine what people were like in the 1200s
"But if a male living in 1500 managed to see his 21st birthday, he was expected to live around 50 more years from that point." They at least lived to be 71 or so. You will always have people living a little bit longer of a little bit less.
Also, referring to the diet point: "And it turns out they weren't exactly living lives of "bare bones subsistence," either. By the late Middle Ages, your average English worker was making around $1,000 a year -- significantly better than people in some of today's poorer nations. [...] it did allow them to afford varied diets, the occasional luxury item, and plenty of ale [...]"
(Source: http://www.cracked.com/article_20186_6- ... es_p2.html).[/quote]
Cracked is hardly a legitimate source for anything beyond amusement. This is a better source that proves that the life expectancy in the British royal family in (parts) of the Medieval period is about fifty when discounting war, infant mortality and childbirth. I did a similar count of the early Holy Roman Emperors. Charlemagne is, at 71, the only one who makes it into the seventies. Louis I and Lothar I both makes sixty (61-62 and 59-60 respectively) but are the only emperors before Otto I who can claim that, the rest dying usually in the early fifties if they are luck with more people dying younger then that.
