During the seventeenth-century, New England had one of the healthiest populations in the world. The region had a low population density and a higher life expectancy than in England. It was home to the first society in history in which grandparents were common. The region's population lived in small, close-knit towns and villages. Around 90 to 95 percent of the colonial villagers were able to support themselves by subsistence farming. According to the passage, why was life expectancy in colonial New England considerably higher than life expectancy in the country of England
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