Women gave birth for 1000s of years without modern medicine. Of course, for the ancient Assyrian and Babylonian empires (where we have life insurance actuarial tables on clay tablets), it was also the leading cause of death for women. (For men, it was warfare.) For both men and women, the second leading cause of death was scorpion bites.
Women gave birth for 1000s of years without modern medicine. Of course, for the ancient Assyrian and Babylonian empires (where we have life insurance actuarial tables on clay tablets), it was also the leading cause of death for women. (For men, it was warfare.) For both men and women, the second leading cause of death was scorpion bites.