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re: Medieval farmers ate 7000-9000 calories a dsy
Posted on 2/19/24 at 6:59 pm to TheGasMan
Posted on 2/19/24 at 6:59 pm to TheGasMan
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It’s not possible. Whoever believes that or wrote that has no idea the scale of production that incurs.
Chopping wood or fetching water from the river would give most on this board a heart attack. Thats probably how these baws started their day.
I dont doubt these estimates for one second.
Anyone that has cleared land with hand tools or chopped/split wood with a weighted splitting maul, or bailed hay knows this.
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Posted on 2/19/24 at 7:06 pm to UnitedFruitCompany
I mean you’re not wrong about most of these posters… but “medieval farmers ate 7000-9000 calories a day”? Think about that. That’s not sustainable in any sized culture when you factor in population size, tools, crop yield, etc. per capita. Key word being per capita. Even in todays massive abilities of several of those factors, we couldn’t sustain that (once again that’s per capita, so it’s normalized).
Absolute bullshite of an OP
Absolute bullshite of an OP
Posted on 2/19/24 at 7:23 pm to UnitedFruitCompany
quote:The average young male field hand slave working cotton fields in the south or cane plantations in the Caribbean required around 4k a day to maintain. I have a hard time believing that Medieval sustenance farmers in general required double those calories.
Chopping wood or fetching water from the river would give most on this board a heart attack. Thats probably how these baws started their day.
I dont doubt these estimates for one second.
Anyone that has cleared land with hand tools or chopped/split wood with a weighted splitting maul, or bailed hay knows this.
And if they did it was a circular problem because the only reason they would need to burn that many calories is to use them to grow more food so they could eat 9k calories a day.
This post was edited on 2/19/24 at 8:17 pm
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