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I've been to this bridge. It's the Devil's Bridge in Wales.
Here's another angle, ripped from Wikipedia:
The river underneath is insanely deep. Pictures do not do it justice just how much further it goes out of the bottom of this frame. You do not get out of there. That is death.
The bottom-most bridge was built around the 12th century. How the hell they managed to build stuff like this way back then staggers me.
Labor was free because of slavery, so the economics were not the same. Current engineering has the concept of "over engineering" which is what cracked-up addicts in wall street call "building to last", due to the "expense" of not being shortsighted on a quarter by quarter basis.
Was it slaves? I am not seeing any references to slaves building the original bridge online anywhere, where did you see that? :o
I'm considering most economic systems prior to...the last few centuries to be essentially slavery. If some random king owns everything....
Not the same as America's slavery of course, nor is it necessarily legally structured slavery as existed in many societies, but nevertheless.