Exactly, that's what makes me angry about constantly hearing that "average life expectancy was 25 or 30"... it's so misleading. If you survived childhood, reaching 65-80 years old wasn't uncommon at all
And these are supposed to be the smartest among us. What these averages would have you believe, is everyone was walking around parentless by the time they were 10 years old….
Infant death is what dragged down the life expectancy stat of the middle ages. If a person survived infancy the life expectancy was about 55. So it's not like seeing someone in their 60s was this absurdly rare thing, it's like seeing someone in their 70's today.
I've always hated that historians claimed 30 was the life expectancy. Like what? So man in his prime just dropped dead one day while plowing the field. Doubt it.
Yep. It's the adult mortality that differentiated states back then since child mortality was equally high almost everywhere. An adult Frank could expect to reach 45 years of age which is pretty decent for the time. The highest life expectancy in Europe in that time was in the Eastern Roman "Byzantine" Empire at about 55.
@@changedpace9169Why not? Looking back (I'm a 73 woman), I was in my prime from my middle to late 30s. Lots of energy, good stamina and my strongest then. I felt at my best then and i don't think I'm that unusual.
I’m sure that many of us with European ancestors are related to him. Whether or not these remains are actually his is another story. The “relic” industry was quite popular in those days
Ohhhh…. I’m a geneticist, and if only I could get my hands on the DNA of One of the few successful genetic lines of his time to persist to the modern day…can his entire Genome mapped…from a mitochondrial (mother to daughter) line I could get a DIRECT line of the fathers of an ethnic group!! From a Y Haplogroup standpoint (father to son on down the ages, there are genetic MATCHES of Charlemagne…MATCHES! Not just similarities…matches!) walking around the earth today. Yes, all Western Europeans descend from him from father to daughter to son to son to daughter (as an example) but VERY few of you could he DIRECT, father to son and mother to daughter matches of the father of 3 nations! (He is the founder of Germany,France and the idea of an Italian state). Or….I could just as easily tell you that from this particular skeleton, it is not possible that someone as prolific as Charlemagne could be the owner of the bones I’m studying. To exclude this possibility and ensure that this is Charlemagne, as an Asian, it would be as if I’m finding the bones of Genghis Khan!
What is your Y-DNA Haplogroup, I might be able to confirm it. There are millions of relatives related to him but only a few will have his actual Y-DNA Haplogroup which is the most important. I can confirm it. It will also teach me more about my different lines of heritage.
@@molywop510 Retroactive rule-making? Surely your ego is not so fragile that you can't admit to making a teensy mistake? Even I have made mistakes before and I, like Mary Poppins, am _practically perfect in every way_ The correct conversion is 5 feet, 10.86 inches. Since it's much closer to 5'11" than 5'10", you should have answered with ≈5' 11"✅ 😁
One meter 80. What the hell does this mean in normal measurements. Feet and inches. To us Americans, a meter is theater 3 foot stick from science class.
Bro there are other people watching then only Americans. You guys are not the only one watching this it just takes 1 google search. Stop crying or just accept the metric system is the better measurement system to exist
Well yeah, but how you gonna tell your ancestors that, who first made the claims it's him and kept his body? These relics are hundreds of years old, so even if it's not him, they still hold cultural relevance. It's literally history, so why would you want to destroy it?
@CornpopTheBadDude hoaxes are history too, my man. Why don't we destroy things like the shroud of Turin while we're at it. People have, and always will be, gullible af. If we destroyed all the bs throughout history, we'd lose so much cool stuff.
