Цитаты из книг — Вальтер Шайдель

The evidence from Roman Italy, on the other hand, allows us to estimate a mean height of 168cm, equal to that of Italian males just after World War II, and the material from Hellenistic Greece suggests a mean height of 172cm, a level not reached in modern Greece until the late 1970s.

The diversity of fruit grown in [Roman] Italy, or imported by sea, is very impressive. In addition to the fruit already listed, literary sources or archaebotanical studies attest to the consumption of mulberries, blackberries, blueberries, myrtleberries, cornelberries, serviceberries, rowanberries, strawberries, figs,…

...Pliny listing 41 pear varieties, 28 fig cultivars, 22 types of apple, 8 of the cherry, 7 of the quince, and 5 varieties of peach and plum.

Protein and calorie malnutrition, caused by an insufficient diet based overwhelmingly on cereals, was very acute throughout eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Western Europe, and drove the mean heights of the Spaniards, Italians, and Austro-Hungarians as low as 158–162cm, comparable to the heights of poor peasants in the…

На протяжении всей письменной истории периодическаякомпрессия неравенства происходила из-за войн с массовой мобилизацией,трансформационных революций, распада государств и пандемий, которые по своемувоздействию на неравенство неизменно превышали любые полностью мирные средства.