If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed?

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• Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Die as you forgot to teleport me to where the earth was at the time.

  Otherwise I guess my main knowledge that could be useful is some basic first aid. Secondary to that, a little bit of electrical stuff.

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  • MBech@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Assuming you live in the west, you want to get executed by the catholics?

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    • Soggy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’m really hoping to stay where I am. I’d rather try to integrate with the Coast Salish people than 14th century Christians.

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• Tudsamfa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  This is something I often wonder about, what could one person even do with all of today’s common knowledge? You can’t very well just invent the printing press and have the same impact as Gutenberg - you need something what the few people who can read would, and most people can’t translate the bible from Latin into renaissance German and/or don’t know enough about the catholic church to write scathing remarks on it like Luther.

  You can write and read - that’s something. Maybe more importantly, you can do math with arabic numerals - boom, easy accounting job. With a bit higher education, you may even just invent calculus once more. You know how long it took for people to figure out you can put pi on the number line? Proving all the formulas in your head is the hard stuff, but you have a head start just by knowing them. We all clown on the wormhole explanation with the paper, but it does prove Euclid wrong 400 years early.

  Ah, and you can just become a medical genius by using soap and bandages - “do no harm” is better than most.

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  • Kookie215@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Heres the thing though, you can write, but can you write and read Middle English from the 1300’s? There are some similar words but its a very different language than what you and I are used to, it’s another 200 years before Shakespeare and most English speakers struggle with even as far back as that.

    I just asked AI to write my above comment in Middle English

    “Lo! Her is the thinge, but thou mayst writen, canstow yet writen and reden in the Englissh of the thrittene hundred yere? Certes, ther ben som wordes ylich, but it is ful divers from that which thou and I ben y-used to. Two hundred wynters yet moot passen er Shakspere shal come, and fele folk that speken now Englyssh han gret strif to undirstanden that tyme.”

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    • EtnaAtsume@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Even that is very modern-looking to this Chaucer enjoyer.

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    • Tudsamfa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You probably can read middle English sooner than you can speak it. Like writing with a feather on parchment, I assume you don’t just die and have time to learn.

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    • ReiRose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Side note, I now want to translate all my emails to my supervisors into middle English

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    • robador51@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That reads like Dutch to me. Perfect! I’ll be fine.

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  • Tudsamfa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Should be noted though, even with the best plan, your frail body, weird language and no local knowledge will mean you probably still die in 2 - 72 hours.

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• Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Fuck you buddy, I’m barely getting by with modern medicine, you just ended me.

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• sexual_tomato@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Nobody would be able to understand me because English has diverged so far from 12th century English that it’s a different language. Also I’d be in north America where nobody had even seen a white person. Additionally, I’m 20 ft above the ground right now in a building that didn’t exist back then. Finally, I’d be rightfully blamed for bringing plague to the native tribes of the area and likely killed.

  Assuming those hurdles were all cleared: I’m a mechanical engineer. So, I’d tell the natives where iron ore, coal, and oil was buried and how to extract and refine it. Tell them how to make gunpowder. Speed run making steam engines and lathes. Get north american natives armed, industrialized, and organized against the external European threat.

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  • PurpleSkull@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Tell them how to make gunpowder.

    That right here is all you need. If you can actually forge a gun and show them how to make gunpowder, you don’t need anything else. Although even then you would probably be executed shortly after for being a threat to the nobility.

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• Milk@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’d be dead in the vacuum of space. You never mentioned that I’d just go back in time, you forgot the coordinates. Now I’m floating, dead. Thanks man.

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  • zenforyen@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    This. Once you understand enough about the universe how all coordinates are relative and everything is moving relative to everything else… Like, how the fuck is time travel supposed to work it it was anywhere like this naive movie idea of it? Time travel Hollywood style is literally not a continuous operation and as such absolutely unphysical.

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    • PoppyChulo@lemmy.wtf ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Well since all cordninates are realative, and your relative position to earth is unchanging, wouldn’t that mean that everything else moves around you while you and the earth stand still and go back in time?

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• BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I would fall from a very high place

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• frozen@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Die a slow death from hyperglycemia once my pump runs out of insulin.

  Infect the indigenous population with some god awful pathogen they have no defense against.

  Die to a pathogen I have no defense against.

  Die to the indigenous population due to being a white dude in pre-contact North America.

  It uh… wouldn’t be pretty.

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• njm1314@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Probably die

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• LordOfLocksley@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  England is in the midst of the Hundred Years war with France and considering I’m ~193cm and the average height of a man in England in the 14th century is about 171cm… looks like in getting my arse drafted and shipped off to France, to act as some kind of intimidating presence. That is until I have to swing a sword, which my body, that’s used to sitting in an office looking over excel spreadsheets, absolutely can’t do, so I get bum rushed/hit in the face with an arrow and die.

  That’s the most likely scenario.

  Worst case scenario, considering I don’t speak middle English or Latin, I’m treated as an enemy and locked up in a dungeon somewhere.

  I don’t think there is realistically a best case scenario

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  • Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’d just like to interject that while traveling was rare in medieval times, it did happen. People usually didn’t get thrown in jail for it, even if they didn’t speak the local language.

    Regular people didn’t really speak Latin beyond a few bits of prayer. The lingua franca was a mix of various coastal languages (think of the belter patois in the expanse), but even that was only known to traders.

    You’d have a tough time for sure, but wouldn’t necessarily get in trouble.

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    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      afaik travel wasn’t even particularly rare, it was just rare that you’d travel very far. Certainly in england it was expected that you’d travel to london or whatever for legal reasons at least like once or twice in your life, and of course merchants existed.

      but also a really significant travel no one tends to mention is going on a pilgrimage to jerusalem! to my knowledge most people managed to do it once, and that’s a massive journey to undertake without modern vehicles!
      thankfully since religion was so important back then, pilgrims were afforded quite significant privileges like guaranteed free food and housing and iirc travel from anyone, to the point that pretending to be a pilgrim was quite a severe crime.

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• redwattlebird@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Well, I’m in Australia so I would try and communicate with the indigenous population and teach them how to defend themselves against the upcoming colonist invasion and take advantage of what they have to offer, starting with forcing a signed treaty.

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  • Soggy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    American here: governments have never cared about signed treaties with natives. But your heart’s in the right place.

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    • redwattlebird@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Thanks. I think they do ok in New Zealand though with the Maori.

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• whoisearth@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Fly under the radar as much as possible, find a cute girl and settle down and have a lot of kids.

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  • lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You will not be flying under any radars lmao

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    • J0hnD03@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The second he opens his mouth they know something off. Dialects and languages did change a bit.

      If you’re around superstitious and xenophobic people things can get out of hand quickly.

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    • whoisearth@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Maybe you missed the “as much as possible” part

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• Acamon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Many years ago when I thought about this, I realised I wouldn’t be able to put much of my modern knowledge and skills to use. I decided I’d learn to make basic matches by distilling urine into phosphate, which wasn’t invented until the 19th century, but I’ve forgotten the process. Collect lots of urine and boil it? Also, if you make white phosphate it can cause horrific toothache and they have to remove your jaw… So, I’m hoping another commentor will suggest a safer skill I can brush up to be ready for travel.

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    i believe toothache would be the least of your problems, chronic exposure to white phosphorous will give you fossy jaw which… just straight up kills the jaw and makes it fall off, at least they don’t have to go out of their way to remove it! yay…

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• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  That’s 1375.

  Not good, not bad. Depends on where you ended up on the globe. There absolutely is civilization, but it’s all kings and Tsars and the like. The English and French Hundred Years War is winding down but the plague really did a number on Europe. Lots of war in India. It wasn’t a great time in the Middle East what with the Crusades and all. The Egyptians are conquering Armenia. The Songhai Emprire is growing in Eastern Africa. Southeast Asia had a lot of conquest and a large kingdom growing, might not have been so bad as long as you landed on the winning side. The Ming Dynasty just started in China.

  So it’s not like you ended up in pre-civilization or among dinosaurs or something. There are plenty of people around, but it’s still an age of war and conquest. Your best bet to have a great life would be to ally yourself with a strong leader and give them advancements to help that leader “win”. Of course, if he were defeated, you’d be slowly tortured and killed by the opposing side.

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• RandomVideos@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Use all the science i know from school to helpfully quicken scientific progress and spread trans propaganda

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• spongebue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Basic geography could go a long ways, if people believe you. At this point people were exploring the world trying to find the spice Islands, but didn’t know WTF they were doing. Magellan navigating the strait that would be named after him was impressive at its time, but now we know the best way from Europe to Asia (and spices and stuff) by sea without any modern canale is by going around Africa. Like, it still sucks and it’s a long trip but it’s doable compared to going to damn near Antarctica.

  This assumes I don’t die, can communicate, and am not in the then-unpopulated (and quite landlocked) current location of Denver, Colorado.

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• djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I don’t think I know a single language from the time, so I’m probably getting murdered because I’m a strange foreigner who can’t defend themselves with words.

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• The_Caretaker@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I would use the superstitions of the people of the area to scare them away from me and my space. I would build a Catalan forge and a smelter that is powered by falling water. I would make gunpowder but not share the recipe. I would also distill alcohol for sale and for hygiene. I would use Leedskalnins PMH to create permanent magnets and use them to make electricity. Electric fences also help keep the superstitious barbarians away. I would also be a beekeeper.

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  • Kookie215@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Wow you know how to do all that stuff right now off the top of your head without books or instructions? I am impressed. I feel like the best I would be able to do alcohol wise is distilled prison hooch. Like I know the basic priceable but not the recipe.

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    • The_Caretaker@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      People were mining, smelting, and forging many metals 650 years ago. The forge isn’t a complicated device. A coal fire with forced air to raise the temperature. Pressurized air can be taken from falling water. There are always bubbles. Leeskalnin’s PMH is really simple. If you have copper, silver or aluminum wire and Iron, you can make a permanent magnet. Moving copper, aluminum or silver through a magnetic field gives you electricity. Bees are not too hard to keep. Make a wood house with a small entrance for them and bait the inside with some beeswax and honeycomb and you can get them to move in. I worked at a fireworks factory a long time ago. Gunpowder is not hard to make. Finding potassium nitrate would be the hard part.

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• bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Hope that I don’t start the early spread of New World diseases to indigenous Americans

  And I’d be dead by the end of the week

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• markovs_gun@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I would die quickly because I don’t have any wilderness survival skills and the land I live in (USA) was inhabited by hunter gatherer tribes whose language is completely unrelated to anything I know and whose customs are completely unknown to me as well. But beyond that, even if I got teleported to England where I at least know a similar enough language to where I could figure out middle English decently quickly, I think people seriously overestimate how useful just having modern knowledge is.

  For example, say you want to build a gun. Do you know how to forge a gun barrel with medieval steel and make gunpowder out of bat shit and sulfur? Because I sure as hell don’t. I could probably make gunpowder but how the hell would you get the money to pay someone to make a gun barrel for you? And further, even if you had the skills yourself, basically nobody today deals with raw materials as inconsistent as what they were working with back then and therefore don’t have practice working with them. Even if you introduced something like germ theory to them why would anyone believe you? You’d probably get just as sick as everyone else even with following modern sanitation standards for yourself because nobody else would be. Same with math. Want to speedrun introducing calculus to the world? Good luck trying to prove it to medieval mathematicians without having deep knowledge of euclidean constructive proofs and philosophy to even allow for something like an infinitesimal to exist. There’s very little one person can realistically do to change the world on their own.

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  • Kookie215@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I also feel like suggesting people wash their hands, and having it work, would immediately get you accused of being a witch.

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    • markovs_gun@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It probably wouldn’t work though. Say you wash your hands. Okay that helps some against certain diseases but not against respiratory disease, many types of foodborne illness, the plague, etc. You’d still get all of those just as easily as everyone else without also having a backdrop of the germ theory of disease to explain other ways to prevent disease and antibiotics to cure bacterial infections.

      This is the state of biology in the middle ages. This is a medieval Scottish bestiary, a book of animals, which contains many interesting facts about animals such as beavers biting their testicles off to throw away pursuers, several animals spontaneously generating from nothing, and many animals that don’t exist (my favorite is the Bonnacon, a bull that spews firey shit as a defense mechanism). Medieval scholars also didn’t accept experimentation as a valid means of gaining knowledge - they were stuck on Plato’s ideas about matter being flawed and untrustworthy and true knowledge only being able to come from Reason (and in the case of the medieval era, Divine revelation). Obviously you could show them bacteria (if you could somehow fashion a powerful enough microscope with medieval tech, which is not a trivial task) and they’d have to believe in it but how would you get them to believe that those little guys cause disease when that took us a couple hundred years in actual history?

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• Nemo@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Unfortunately in that circumstance, I’d likely be a horrible vector for disease. Not much chance of survival if I spread devastation wherever I go.

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  • janus2@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    casually ends humanity with time traveling covid

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    • Nemo@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Blame OP, she’s the one who sent me back in time.

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• seeigel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  First I would seek the attention of the local ruler by cooking interesting dishes with modern knowledge.

  Then I would ask him to create an akademy. I don’t know the details but I know what can be known. Intelligent people will reinvent the knowledge.

  Some side businesses should make enough money that the akademy and thus further development doesn’t entirely rely on the king.

  Build cities with public transport and no cars, because there is no car.

  Success.

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  • PurpleSkull@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Let me cook you something AMAZING!

    First I need some curry…uh…okay, do you have salt? WHAT?

    Alright, where is the oven? Time to prepare you some amazing lasagna! Where do you keep your noodles? No noodles? I guess I can hack it with potatoes.

    …PO-TA-TOES! YOU…WHAT???

    Okay nevermind, let me show you why you need to stop spending all your money on survival in warfare and instead fund my school! I can teach you to…uh…tell you about things we have in the future. No, I don’t know how to create any of that. But trust me bro, just give me money. No need to tie me to your trebuchet like that, I’m sure I can remember how to build an airplane somehowAHHHHHHHHHH

    You tried.

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    • seeigel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      All your points are opportunities. Some should just not be taken immediately. When in Europe, it’s not good to start with traveling earth, think Gallileo. When in America, it’s better to build weapons first before contacting Europe.

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  • whitelobster69@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Great idea with the food. Probably won’t get called a witch while building trust. Although I have no confidence in my ability to recognize any vegetable or spice, but hopefully a brine would be enough.

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• orgrinrt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Okay, so unlike most other scenarios, I think I would be fine for a while at least. The peoples living where I live would have made and kept more or less regular contact with the sons of bitches from the south that would later crusade us (or I think maybe one of the crusades is presently ongoing at the time…) so while I would both introduce and be hit with diseases or more likely strains of familiar ones new to my body/their bodies, I think it wouldn’t be as destructive as entirely separated landmasses like America vs Europe.

  So if I survive the shock my body gets hit with, and I don’t kill everyone around me, I think I would be fairly well received. As far as I’ve read, the languages and dialects were different than after the formalization of the written form, and at this time these lands were just starting to get forced under Swedish rule, so with my basic understanding of Swedish and of course my native language, I think I would be able to communicate well enough to not get instantly killed as a demon or something.

  I think my best bet would be to introduce myself as some sort of demi-god, a bastard son of the god of forests and the hunt probably, which would hopefully explain my alien attire and materials used to make them. And the alien accent/dialect of both the local language or Swedish, depending on where I’d land. If the first contact I make aren’t local but crusaders, I suppose I’d have to try and push myself as a wandering preacher of Christ or something. I’d have to hope they’d speak Swedish, since I do not know German well enough to form two words together, and they’d likely be the next likely encounters. Novgorodians I think were fine with the Swedish language in general, so if our current knowledge of history was off enough that I’d meet them here, I’d still be fine. No idea what I’d pretend to be to them though. My limited knowledge of history doesn’t help there. But as far as I understand, they were sort of a melting pot of close-by cultures, and not so focused on these lands at this time, they’d just take me for a local hermit and let me run off clumsily.

  If I was able to survive the first encounters and get myself to a village or a hillfort, I’d try and establish myself as a wise one, helping with calculations and engineering and whatnot to the best of my capabilities, which I would think honestly should far exceed those of the locals at the time. So maybe I’d get by just for being useful and knowledgeable.

  But I don’t think I’d live a long life. These were a turbulent and violent time and one village elder or the other, fancying themself a king or whatever, would just send assassins to off me for being an asset for the local leader where I’d end up in.

  Even if I’d travel to avoid this problem, it probably wouldn’t take until my old ages to have someone off me just by happenstance. And I wouldn’t want to live a hermit in a time where internet or computers aren’t a thing. I think the only way to cope would be to focus on a family, try and bring up children and have that fulfill my life as best it can, as long as it can.

  Honestly, I consider myself lucky in this scenario. We still have our language alive and in use, the same the locals would speak at that time. This together with the general superstitious nature of the local tribes — which the crusades and Christianity, with overt blood and sadistic violence, would (thankfully later, I hope for my sake here, at least according to our current knowledge) succeed in some amount to water down and turn them to its specific flavor of lame ass superstition — would make it probably at least somewhat likely I wouldn’t be killed on sight or something to that effect.

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• edgemaster72@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’d be fucked

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• JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Assuming I appear naked in a field in England in 1375, I would first try to, in no particular order (at first, then a particular order)

  • find cloth to cover my face and hands so I don’t transmit or catch any diseases
  • distill water so I can drink it without getting diseases
  • use yams or horse urine to create HRT
  • communicate with the locals and seek a local blacksmith to create a metal tube with metal balls inside it, and mix charcoal, potash, and sulfur to make a primitive gun to defend myself against the people who think I’m a witch or a demon or whatever
  • talk to the women and encourage them to rise up against the system and patriarchy, teach them how to make weapons, about 4 field crop rotation if they don’t already know it, otherwise about automated steam engines, weavers, hydroelectric dams, etc
  • march up to the feudal lord and demand democracy, with the fear of the gun and half the population behind me they will agree
  • teach about the scientific method to get them to question things, do their own research, and learn more
  • there will be scientific labs, primitive computers can be developed, we can spread our advanced culture to the rest of Afro-Eurasia, also prevent slavery
  • warn people about going to America and Australia unprepared, go with them in modern ships and don’t spread disease, talk to the locals and trade with them and learn from them, don’t kill them or replace them. Teach them the tech advancements too
  • Write down lots of things, invent the printing press if not already invented, document human knowledge and encourage more documentation by others

  This is all if I have any measure of success at the first things and don’t die or kill myself

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  • Siegfried@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I don’t want to pop your bubble, but I think you died somewhere around step 3

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• athairmor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Do my best to warn the locals of the coming invasion. Learn their language and teach them English and tell them not to trust any group of strangers who speak it.

  Help improve their technology as best I can. I’m not sure how much I’d be able to improve it. At least, teach them to wear masks and wash their hands when around sick people.

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  • superkret@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You’re a stranger speaking English trying to convince the locals not to trust any stranger speaking English?

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    • athairmor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yes. I’d have to learn their language first, anyway. I already know bits of modern versions but not much. Then, introduce the warning of invasions and teach them English with the caution that people speaking groups of people speaking will bring death and destruction.

      It’s not like they’ll already have a fear of English or any concept of the language before I teach it to them.

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  • Kookie215@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I don’t think our English is anywhere close to Olde English though, we might be hardly able to understand them ourselves, and I don’t think they would understand us at all.

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• BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  find the nearest sword and belly flop on its pointy side

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• thelsim@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  650 years ago this place was a sea. So I’d end up having to swim at least a couple of kilometers. Considering the current sea temperatures, I’d probably die of hypothermia before I could reach the shore.

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  • BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Learn to build dams

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    • MeThisGuy@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      like Amsterdam, which would already be a 100 years old

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• chellewalker@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’d try and hold my breath to not set off the European diseases into America early.

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• arotrios@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Prophecy some major upcoming events, subsequently market myself as a saint, grab a comfy church position, sell indulgences, profit. Works in pretty much any era.

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  • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You can name some upcoming events between 1375-1376 that would get you enough fame to make a living, off the top of your head?

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  • FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Prophecy some major upcoming events, subsequently market myself as a saint, grab a comfy church position

    Or be burned on a stake.

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• TheDoozer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Well, I’m in America, so…

  I guess I’d prep the natives to help put up a proper fight. Find a way to teach them that white people (like myself) carry diseases and to stay away and keep them away. If they land on your shores, drive them back. Never let them get a foothold. I’d try to convince them that I was a demon that got away from the other demons to warn of our coming.

  I’d do my best to make it so nobody remembered the name Christopher Columbus except as the idiot that died because he thought the world was much smaller than it is and never returned from his voyage.

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  • phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    white people (like myself) carry diseases

    Congratulations, you already killed them all

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  • JcbAzPx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Most likely, you’d just start their mass depopulation pandemic a bit earlier.

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