Why Past Life Expectancy Numbers Are Misleading
The risks were not uniform
5 min readAug 12, 2022
The Roman Empire was the pinnacle of human civilization in the ancient world. They built roads across Europe, developed large and fast-flowing aqueducts, and planted their standard from Spain to Persia. People still travel by the millions to look upon their architecture with their own eyes and marvel at the things that human hands built…