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[–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Just about everyone will be successful at some things.

Everyone knows how to make:

  • Fire
  • Lever
  • Wheel
  • Clay blocks
  • Penicillium molds (antibiotics!)
  • Wine
  • Flatbread
  • Can work out a very basic steam turbine (pot+wheel)

Quite a few also know how to make:

  • Bellows and basic forgery tools
  • Various simple fabrics
  • Simple water pumps
  • Simple carts, bicycles
  • Galvanic cells, or maybe even alternating current sources (+wheel=hydro/steam power!), incandescent light bulbs
  • Cheese and regular bread
  • Beer, cider, moonshine
  • Soap

You can also teach them the basics of proper hygienic procedures to keep their food safe, their hands free of pathogens, etc.

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  • Oh man, have you met an everyone? I might be pessimistic, but I think you might be overestimating by quite a bit. A lot of people know how those things work, but knowing enough to replicate even basics feels kinda rare. Even fire, most don't know beyond 'rub two sticks together'.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    However, if you end up in a Christian land, you'll be seen as a heretic or sorcerer and burned at the stake before you get the chance to try any of these.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I feel like unless you can make everything yourself, logistics would be a problem:

    -Bring me Potassium Nitrate

    • He is speaking in tongues, kill him!
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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I think showing just a few simple tricks that you can do yourself would advance you quite high in ancient academia, and then you'll have some patient helping hands.

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