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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(Psi)SeveredHead" data-source="post: 5886784" data-attributes="member: 1165">People were a few inches shorter in those days, probably due to poorer nutrition. However, certain "classes" (peasants, knights) would have fantastic endurance. Peasants often had to work long hours wearing inadequate clothing in the cold rain, while knights would (according to one source, anyway) practice hours and hours of fighting in full armor because they didn't want to lose to someone who was just as skilled "but showed more dedication than you" during training and therefore didn't get tired as quickly.The effect of disease might be ... mixed. People would be sick all the time (lack of healthcare and health knowledge, people didn't wash hands or use T-P, sometimes they didn't even bathe) but could develop immunity/resistance to the great variety of diseases they'd been exposed to. People with various health conditions might simply never live to adulthood, or not much longer. Someone with diabetes, for instance, would probably die young because no one knows how to keep them alive. This would make the "average" person healthier, unless you're counting the early victims, in which case the average person is less healthy.Can someone explain this?</blockquote>