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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 9290639" data-attributes="member: 22779"><p>70's? Not bloody likely. Good grief, life expectancy in Canada in the 1960's was barely 70. There's a reason that 60 is a HUGE milestone for many cultures. It's because your odds of survival to that age were very low.</p><p></p><p>Do you like cinnamon? I hope so. Because you are going to eat it with virtually every meal to cover the taste of the rotten meat and vegetables that are being used for your food due to the lack of refrigeration. Don't mind the salmonella or dysentery. Water with your meal? Oh, right, can't drink that because that will kill you. Got milk so you can get that calcium for healthy bones and not have your skeleton shatter like matchsticks by the time you are forty? Oh, right, nope. Gonna be drinking unpasteurized milk - again, welcome to constant bouts of the trots. On and on and on. </p><p></p><p>While you are correct that corrective lenses were invented in the 13th century, they wouldn't find widespread use until well after the Renaissance. Certainly won't be found on the faces of Middle Ages peasants until long after the end of the Middle ages. </p><p></p><p>This is what I was talking about when I talked about the romanticization of the Middle Ages that comes part and parcel with fantasy stories. The Middle Ages were a horrific time. Mind buggeringly horrific. Good grief, 25% of Europe DIES from the Black Plague. TWENTY FIVE PERCENT. Never minding the other 75% that are scarred for life.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 9290639, member: 22779"] 70's? Not bloody likely. Good grief, life expectancy in Canada in the 1960's was barely 70. There's a reason that 60 is a HUGE milestone for many cultures. It's because your odds of survival to that age were very low. Do you like cinnamon? I hope so. Because you are going to eat it with virtually every meal to cover the taste of the rotten meat and vegetables that are being used for your food due to the lack of refrigeration. Don't mind the salmonella or dysentery. Water with your meal? Oh, right, can't drink that because that will kill you. Got milk so you can get that calcium for healthy bones and not have your skeleton shatter like matchsticks by the time you are forty? Oh, right, nope. Gonna be drinking unpasteurized milk - again, welcome to constant bouts of the trots. On and on and on. While you are correct that corrective lenses were invented in the 13th century, they wouldn't find widespread use until well after the Renaissance. Certainly won't be found on the faces of Middle Ages peasants until long after the end of the Middle ages. This is what I was talking about when I talked about the romanticization of the Middle Ages that comes part and parcel with fantasy stories. The Middle Ages were a horrific time. Mind buggeringly horrific. Good grief, 25% of Europe DIES from the Black Plague. TWENTY FIVE PERCENT. Never minding the other 75% that are scarred for life. [/QUOTE]
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