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If you went back in time 1000 years...

Posted on 04/12/2015 6:20:17 PM PDT by MNDude

If you time traveled back to 1015, would you have enough modern knowledge and education to improve your llfe?

I mean like could you invent gunpowder or serious medical advancements, etc?


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To: Balding_Eagle

“I stand by my point though, that it isn’t as easy as carrying our knowledge back, it takes a sales pitch too.”

Also, one going back should know who the power was. Carefully avoid public credit, and lets popes, kings, etc have credit for your “ideas”. Technology is one thing, but one should know how to avoid the roadblocks of that era too.


81 posted on 04/12/2015 7:19:26 PM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: MNDude

Perhaps, DaVinci was a time traveller stuck in that time doing as well as he could with the available resources at hand.


82 posted on 04/12/2015 7:19:28 PM PDT by Sasparilla (If you want peace, prepare for war.)
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To: wintertime
Soap: I know how to make it and when to use it.

That was one thing they did know how to make and use.

The problem was the dung all over the place made it nearly impossible to keep wounds clean.

83 posted on 04/12/2015 7:19:38 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: MNDude

We’ve gained a lot of technical knowledge, but in the process we’ve lost some valuable insights. I think we’d be surprised at how much those “primitive” people from 1,000 years ago could teach us.


84 posted on 04/12/2015 7:19:49 PM PDT by Wyrd bið ful aræd (Cruz or lose!)
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To: PAR35

Right. Negro doctors are by definition suspicious characters.

A little unionism and feminism would be entirely appropriate in the 1630s.


85 posted on 04/12/2015 7:20:15 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Some medical advances.


Some folks would still need to be bled.


86 posted on 04/12/2015 7:20:18 PM PDT by Zeneta (Thoughts in time and out of season.)
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To: DBrow
First you’d have to explain that disease comes from tiny invisible creatures and not as a punishment from a deity.

"...there are bred certain minute creatures which cannot be seen by the eyes, but which float in the air and enter the body through the mouth and nose and cause serious diseases."

Marcus Terentius Varro, died 27 B.C.

87 posted on 04/12/2015 7:21:23 PM PDT by Buttons12
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To: DBrow

Of course not!

Even if antibiotics work, they still take some time to perform their effect.

The part that (may be) removed, is of course, the death.


88 posted on 04/12/2015 7:22:15 PM PDT by __rvx86 (¡SI SE PUEDE! (Cruz 2016!))
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To: MNDude

Probably the best thing one could do for the Incas and Aztecs and other pre-Columbians would be to show them what a wheel is and how it works.


89 posted on 04/12/2015 7:23:33 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: yarddog

Probably the best thing one could do for the Incas and Aztecs and other pre-Columbians would be to show them what a wheel is and how it works.


I had also heard that “American Indians” never discovered the “wheel”.

Not sure if that is true?


90 posted on 04/12/2015 7:25:56 PM PDT by Zeneta (Thoughts in time and out of season.)
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To: Buttons12

But that did not become common, regular practice for a long time. Imagine Varro as a time traveler from the late 19th century trying to explain this. It cropped up in the 1500’s and again in the 1600s but was not really acted upon until the late 1800s.

If Varro had been accepted, the Black Plague might have been mitigated.


91 posted on 04/12/2015 7:26:43 PM PDT by DBrow
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To: Vince Ferrer

You could invent the flush toilet, and we’d all be visiting the Vince every morning.


92 posted on 04/12/2015 7:27:07 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: bigdaddy45; All

precisely correct....there would be no electricity, no modern chemistry, no modern materials or processing. Anyone who thinks that things can just be MacGyvered into existence has NEVER spent time developing a new (or just improved) product


93 posted on 04/12/2015 7:27:21 PM PDT by Nifster
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To: Sherman Logan

The problem is, we’re viewing it from a modern perspective, where feminism and guilds/unions are a total train wreck.

Not to mention that the Negro doctor may not be fully qualified: cf. Mindy Kaling’s brother—got into med school passing off as a Negro, for whom admissions standards were lower than for other races...ladies and gents, Affirmative Action! (/s)


94 posted on 04/12/2015 7:27:26 PM PDT by __rvx86 (¡SI SE PUEDE! (Cruz 2016!))
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To: Zeneta
Yes. My husband for example needs to be bled. Every quarter he needs to have a pint drained off to prevent a dangerous buildup of iron in his system.

I would also invent double entry book keeping.

Yes, I know that is something only an accountant knows about but it really did revolutionize business.

95 posted on 04/12/2015 7:28:11 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: MNDude

If you knew history well you might be able to take advantage of knowing the future as it were. It will still be rough goings.


96 posted on 04/12/2015 7:28:37 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: mrsmith

For a while... then I’d buy a boat and head to America before Europe inevitably descended into unrelenting poverty and war.


What would you call the “New World?”


97 posted on 04/12/2015 7:28:42 PM PDT by Rides_A_Red_Horse (Why do you need a fire extinguisher when you can call the fire department?)
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To: MNDude

Maybe if we changed the question a little to give some more perspective. Lets say you had been living 100 years in the future and the United States had suffered a severe decline. The constitution had been shredded. Muslims outnumbered Christians, white people were a hated minority, global cooling had caused mass famine and tens of millions of people had starved to death in the United States alone. Advanced technology was being used to enslave rather than help people. Would you do to help our future generations to avoid this living hell?


98 posted on 04/12/2015 7:28:54 PM PDT by fireman15 (Check your facts before making ignorant statements.)
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To: MNDude

One can live three seconds without a brain; three minutes without a breath; three hours without shelter; three days without water; three weeks without food; three months without a friend; three years without job.

Modern technology is the bane of man. Goibg back 1000 years would end techno man in three days.


99 posted on 04/12/2015 7:29:01 PM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: Zeneta
Not true.

They had the wheel but without any beasts of burden the wheel was not considered of much use and so was used only in toys and things like that.

100 posted on 04/12/2015 7:30:23 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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