Is It True That...? — Season 1, Episode 7: ...We Used to Die Younger in the Past?
Documentary • 23 min • 2 seasons, 40 episodes
Episode synopsis
Advances in agriculture, hygiene and medicine have steadily increased average life expectancy throughout history. But even in the Stone Age, some people reached old age. Was life expectancy really much lower in the past?
About Is It True That...?
Did democracy actually originate in Greece? Was the plague the worst epidemic of all time? And did we really work harder in the past than we do today? Is it true that ...? questions what we think we know and takes another look at history.
More episodes from Season 1
- E1...Democracy Was Invented In Greece?
- E2...The Plague Was the Worst Epidemic Ever?
- E3...We Used to Work More?
- E4...We Always Believed in God?
- E5...The Library of Alexandria Burned Down?
- E6...Vibrators Were Invented for Female Pleasure?
- E8...Hitler Invented the Autobahn?
- E9...The Steam Engine Started the Industrial Revolution?
- E10...Bartering Was the First Form of Money?
- E11...Men Have Always Worn Trousers?
- E12...Beauty Standards Have Always Been the Same?
- E13...Julius Caesar Was Born by C-Section?