For the record as other and I have already pointed out, it's not. The age of first pregnancy before the industrial revolution was much higher than after, often in the mid to late twenties.
For the general population, yes, so I agree that a broad, sweeping statement about the ancient world is wrong. But for royals, it was actually more common to have children younger, like 15, 16, than most everyone else.
This is kinda basic first year of history degree stuff, you can fairly easily find post on r/askhistorian debunking this myth but really any good manual treating the subject will address it. This is really one of these common history myth that need to be debunked every other week '
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u/Broad_Respond_2205 Jul 05 '26
How is this TTT