• FFF982@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    A family generation lasts about 20-30 years.

    1000 * 25 = 25 000

    that’s an old sword.

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      1 year ago

      I don’t think the chicken farmer knows what a thousand means. He probably thinks it just means many.

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      To put that into perspective, the oldest known permanent human settlement is about 25,000 years old. The Bronze Age wouldn’t start for another ~20,000 years, so they wasn’t any metal working.