| > Where are you getting ice from in 1500s Italy? The Romans had ice available even for common people. They harvested it from the mountains. Ice can be stored a surprisingly long time if kept out of sunlight and packed correctly. I know less about 1500s Italy specifically, but obviously the technology existed if people wanted to do it. > You get an arrow pulled out of your skull, but what are you doing with the resulting infection? An infection was bad news, but by no means guaranteed. Soldiers frequently suffered horrific wounds and survived, assuming they weren't on an interminable hell campaign with no chance to recover. It's actually quite surprising how resilient people are. > People bring you food from far away, but there's no refrigeration and it's hauled at 15 kilometers a day. Where are you getting the 15km number? Of course it depends on the topography, but also the mode of transportation. > You can pay someone a lot of money to bring avocados from 1000 kilometers away by foot today. But you won't want to eat those avocados. It really depends on what you are eating. Trade did bring all sorts of exotic food items hundreds or thousands of miles. |
okay 15km is too short. Average walking speed is 5km/hr and you would expect to walk 10 hours a day. So movement would have been more like 50km per day.