Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-24.20.45.251-20161103165218/@comment-25991826-20161106195500

Arkantos95 wrote: James2009 wrote:

Those were the days were you were often considered a grown man/woman by the time you were as young as 15! During a time where you often died before your 40th birthday if you were lucky, that was almost essential. The life expectancy of that era is heavily skewed by the ludicrously high infant mortality rates at the time. People, especially the upper class, often lived well into their 50s and 60s. And while teenagers were expected to find work/learn trades by that age, only the nobility/royalty were actually marrying their kids off before that age or at it. For the upper class, sure. The lower class was another story though.

Also, I never mentioned marraige, but that is a fair point.