“Time’s winged chariot” was always drawing “near” to young men and women for millennia. The Black and Latino populations are estimated to experience declines in life expectancy. Shakespeare wrote his first play when he was 26 in 1590. We also project a 0.87-y reduction in life expectancy at age 65 y. Chaucer the Father of English Literature wrote his first major work, the Book Of Duchess, in the 14th century when he was 25. Genghis Khan in the 1100’s began building the army that would conquer Asia when he was 20. Life expectancy in some North American countries, 19602020. Life expectancy at birth in some countries of the Near East, 19602020. Life expectancy in some countries of South-East Asia and Oceania, 19602020. Life expectancy in some Asian countries, 19602020. Charlemagne ruled most of western Europe in the 700’s AD when he was 26. Life expectancy in Ukraine, Belarus, Russia and Kazakhstan, 19602020. Alexander the Great in the 3rd century BC reigned over his father’s kingdom and commanded the army that would conquer the known world when he was 20. Ambitious or talented young men, or young men like Herod the Great’s 19-year-old son Archelaus who inherited kingdoms, were forced to grow up quickly because by age 20 their life was already half over. For thousands of years, life was uncertain but it was pretty certain the normal person would not live past 40 years. The 35-40 average life span of people in the Western world held true through the Dark Ages, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance until the 19th and 20th centuries when modern medicine and its life-preserving discoveries began in earnest. There is little firm information about the collective lives of those who lived in the first centuries BC and the first centuries AD, but the conjecture is that the average life span was about 35 years. From the House of Terentius Neo, Pompeii. Wall painting of the baker Terentius Neo and his wife.
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