In the eighteenth century, what differentiated the everyday lives of the elite and the lower case

The English replaced France and Spain as the single-most influential political and economic power in North America during the first three quarters of the eighteenth century.  Elite men’s life expectancy in medieval England was perhaps nine years less than elite women’s. Men achieved near equality with women in life expectancy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. But men’s lifespan shortfall subsequently grew to about five years

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