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Grim reality of life in ancient Rome revealed: Average worker was DEAD by 30 [tr]
UK Daily Mail ^ | May 28, 2016 | Ekin Karasin

Posted on 05/28/2016 5:01:59 AM PDT by C19fan

The average ancient Roman worker was riddled with arthritis, suffered broken bones and was dead by 30 thanks to a diet of rotting grains and a lifetime of hard labour.

The grim realities of the Eternal City were revealed in a study carried out by an Italian team of specialists that used modern-scanning techniques to analyse 2,000 ancient skeletons.

The majority of the skeletons from the first and third century AD, found in the suburbs of the ancient city, had broken collar bones, noses and hand bones.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: ancientrome; archaeology; godsgravesglyphs; romanempire; rome; slavery; slaves
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To: C19fan

One of the biggest mistakes our founding fathers made was letting slavery continue. We have so many problems now because of it.


21 posted on 05/28/2016 7:15:07 AM PDT by Dallas59 (Only a fool stumbles on things behind him.)
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To: Dallas59

while I agree, your point is just the flip side of “dead white male slave owners” (ignore the black slave owners, please).

Instead, my thinking about this suggests that while liberals continue to bash America with it, there is a deeper message to consider that affects how we think about how society is organized. - One can either decide you can push an agenda of changing human behavior just as we banned slavery, or take a more fatalistic view. Aristotle described many people as “natural slaves”. Yet “slavery” has been banished in many countries. -—any way, still computing...computing...


22 posted on 05/28/2016 8:19:00 AM PDT by bioqubit (bioqubit: Educated Men Make Terrible Slaves - Aristotle)
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To: Dallas59; E. Pluribus Unum; Palio di Siena; Moonman62; jsanders2001
Good comments -- though the transformation from the so-called Roman republic to period where there was a permanent chief executive in the form of the Emperor, and the Senate wasn't made up entirely of hereditary nobility which owned almost everything, and held as much as 40 percent of the population as slaves, and became much more representative of the population of the Empire, is often misrepresented as a bad thing.

23 posted on 05/28/2016 11:57:29 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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To: momtothree; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...
Thanks momtothree.

24 posted on 05/28/2016 11:57:49 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Yeah, but they died with all their teeth.


25 posted on 05/28/2016 12:02:56 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Dallas59
One of the biggest mistakes our founding fathers made was letting slavery continue

They had to else else some of the cotton/agri growing states weren't going to ratify.

The founding fathers (ff's) were conscious of the down range implications and felt that letting future generations grapple with was the lesser of two evils. Leaving the south exposed to foreign influences was not an option to the ff's.

26 posted on 05/28/2016 2:18:48 PM PDT by pilipo (We are not free.)
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To: C19fan

... and if Al Gore and his ilk have their way, that’s what life will be like in late 21st Century America.


27 posted on 05/28/2016 2:28:18 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (I'm not a smug know-it-all; I just want you to experience epistemological closure.)
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To: Palio di Siena

yes


28 posted on 05/28/2016 3:10:59 PM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....Opabinia can teach us a lot)
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To: Romulus

In American History, Tyrant has a precise meaning too..... Obama


29 posted on 05/28/2016 3:12:35 PM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....Opabinia can teach us a lot)
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To: C19fan

How many people now would be dead at an early age if not for the modern medicines and practices? A broken bone, an infection or virus can easily mean death if not properly taken care of.


30 posted on 05/28/2016 3:51:17 PM PDT by Bellflower (It's not that there isn't any evidence of God, it's that everything is evidence of God.)
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To: Paine in the Neck

Indeed it was.

I’ve studied a bit of Roman architecture. It’s interesting that many of the blocks of houses or apartments would have just a few entrances from the streets.

Most of their exposure was towards a central meeting area, of sorts.

This was due I guess to the ruffians roaming around...


31 posted on 05/28/2016 4:13:37 PM PDT by djf ("She wore a raspberry beret, the kind you find in a second hand store..." - Prince)
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To: BenLurkin

:’)


32 posted on 05/28/2016 4:53:07 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

#2 The slave names in Italian translated to Maytag and Kenmore and Craftsman.


33 posted on 05/29/2016 1:58:07 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: Vince Ferrer
This isn’t unusual for the times. I believe the same analysis was done in the Anasazi region of skeletons and they found the same thing. Puberty was their middle age, and 30 was old.

Not buying it.

Caesar was 55 when he died. But he was murdered (et tu, Brute? yada yada).

The human lifespan is genetically determined (until we fix it). The best modern medicine can do is to prevent early exit.

34 posted on 05/29/2016 2:39:18 AM PDT by cynwoody
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To: cynwoody

Anisazi ate corn ground by stones into a mash. They would also eat bits of stone ground into the corn, which would wear down their teeth. By their 30s, their teeth were ground away to the jawline, which lead to them getting tooth infections easily. Many of them died from tooth infections.


35 posted on 05/29/2016 8:19:49 AM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: pilipo

Agree. It was what it was, and only time could fix the issue of American slavery. And, it did. But, first, the country had to be unified and kept together.

No different than all over the world throughout history. This country did not invent the concept of slavery. Cultures everywhere used slaves, and some still do.

Chances are very good that an ancestor or two (or more) of yours was a slave....no matter what color you are or where you came from.


36 posted on 05/30/2016 12:05:32 PM PDT by Swede Girl
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