Why did we set 18 as the age of majority?

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I’m not asking this from a biology lens, I get that aspect, but more from the sociology/anthropology lens. My question is which culture started using 18 as this hard cutoff, when, and under what reasoning.

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We’ve actually been slowly walking the Age of Majority forwards for thousands of years. A couple centuries ago the age of majority was 16.

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