Its the 12th century and you’ve had no time to prepare, after you’re done reading this post you are snapped. What do you do?
I’d write the harry potter series from memory. And all the star treks.
If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed?
Submitted 2 days ago by Kookie215@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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kreskin@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Kookie215@lemmy.world 2 days ago
This seems like a good idea, but you would have to make a lot of changes to make it relevant to the times. I think it could work
Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I’m doing pretty good then. Where I live has been so historically abundant in resources that people were able to just sort of vibe.
I would also establish a calendar, convey it to the locals, and warn them of what is to come along with a timeline.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I would be among Native Americans in what is now the Seattle area. To them I would be a gibbering idiot who didn’t even know their language, and they would probably kill me.
smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Start making siege weapons.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 2 days ago
Well, I know about hygiene about various diseases, and even how to treat them. I’m also running for my life to the nearest forest, as I don’t have any way to prove I’m not a Vagabound or invader, and I can’t communicate.
There’s no choice but to try to hide deep inside a forest, and try to find a river or lake. I would eventually be forced to drink dirty, risking parasites, unless I get lucky enough to find what I need to purify it.
As soon as that is taken care of, I would focus on covering up my tracks, digging some sort of shelter to hide from medieval people, my next step would be to ensure a food source like fishing, or finding plants I recognize as edible, which might be where I mess up and die (A lot of plants look similar to poisonous ones, mushrooms too).
Next step would be making bog iron, finding copper, and so on, to make life easier at first, but then to defend myself against being discovered.
LesserAbe@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Let’s skip the “I have no basic survival skills” part (also skipping disease) and assume we find a nearby group of humans. If you approach first contact carefully they’d probably let you live with them in exchange for labor, giving you time to learn the language.
I think I have enough ambient exposure to modern technology that I could contribute at least 3-4 major innovations to my group over a couple decades. The challenge would be conveying and implementing ideas more than remembering them. You’re not going to get back to modern standards of living in your remaining time traveled years no matter how much you remember, but what little you can impart to others would earn your keep.
I don’t know what all the innovations would be, but germ theory and pasteurization come to mind.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
The first and easiest thing would be to invent calculus. I’m sure other things would pop up situationally, I could probably get basic electricity going with a bit of experimentation.
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I claw my way out of a few feet of soil, and walk about thirty minutes to where the local Olhone maintained a ceremonial shellmound from 800 BCE until the arrival of the Spanish in the 1700s. By all accounts the Olhone were chill hunter-gatherers, so my best bet would probably be to befriend and join them.
They’d be more knowledgeable than me about everything in the local environment, so I don’t think I’d have much knowledge that would be of use to them. (They seem to have known of other nearby groups that practiced agriculture, but saw no need for it.) I might eventually consider traveling north or south along the coast, but many other groups in western North America practiced warfare and/or slavery, so I’d probably be best off staying put.
TheFANUM@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Get to smelting!
Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com 2 days ago
Good luck finding enough wood for that ! Energy was reaaaally expensive back then.
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Probably die of gangrene after stubbing my toe or something else stupid. Prior to modern medicine, diseases and things we think of as mild were often deadpy.
Lumidaub@feddit.org 2 days ago
Clearly I am OVERprepared for this with my VAST knowledge of Doctor Who. And nothing else.
Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Slowly and with plenty of witnesses invent the toilet. But like out of wood pieces like a barrel or ship. Rain barrel on the roof for water. Start suggesting more contained sewage.
Should be just enough to not get dead for heresy or something but live comfortably and help a shitty situation.
Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com 2 days ago
They had sewage and toilets since Roman times. It wasn’t affordable to many (and you couldn’t make it affordable) but they definitely knew how to make it.