What Would It Be Like To Be 1,000 Years Old?
I was watching a show that was filled with supernatural creatures with longer lifespans than humans. One character was over 700 years old, while another was at least 3000. I wondered what would it be like to be 1,000 years old.
You were born in Europe in the year 1020 AD. Forty-six years later, the Norman Conquest of Britain began. You’re 75 when Pope Urban II calls for the Crusades.
It’s the year 1206, and you’re 186 years old. Genghis Khan starts building his empire across the East. Nine years later, the first democratic document, the Magna Carta, is signed.
Marco Polo travels to Asia and India, looking for a spice route that eventually became the Silk Road. You’re now 251 years old. Two years later, you read Thomas Aquinas’ greatest work, the Summa Theologica.
You ring in the new century; the 1300’s with the Renaissance in Italy. Forty-seven years later, the Black Death/Bubonic Plague spreads across Europe, carried by fleas from rats. About 25,000,000 died. You did not. Now you’re 327 years old.
It’s 1438, and though you don’t know it, the Incan Empire forms in Peru. What you’re looking forward to happens seventeen years later when the Gutenberg movable type printing press produces the Bible. Thirty-seven years after that, it is 1492, and Christopher Columbus gets lost trying to sail to the Indies and stumbles on the New World.
You’re now 472 years old.
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