Posted on 10/14/2012 8:02:34 AM PDT by trailhkr1
What would they be? A gun? Then you are only allowed to bring 2 bullets..see how that works?? Some basic ground rules..has to be a realistic items you can get you hands on today..no tanks etc. You are going with just the clothes on your back + the 3 items to survive an mingle with the folks of the day. Never coming back.
Saw this question on another site and wanted to see what you guys would come up with..I will post that link tomorrow after everyone has a chance to come up with their ideas..some people came up with good ideas (detailed history text of the time in Europe, antibiotics) and other people's ideas..not so much.
You would save the world.Islam is an evil cult , the lies of this child molesting terrorist named Mohammad.
“I think in England they had Old Norse.”
In 742 it would have been Olde English, since the Norse first raided Lindisfarne (north east England) about 793.
Not to nit pick.
Old English descended from the Anglo-Saxons-Frisians-Jutes who had been going from the continent to Britain since around 500.
The Viking raiders and settlers came later.
Our modern English is the product of old English, Old Norse, Norman French, Latin, Gaelic, etc.
And a fine language it is, with a very large vocabulary making for precise and economic writing and speaking.
“...but not in any way a threat to their power.”
Heh. I wonder how long a Freeper would really last in a world with Kings and such before they opened their mouth and said something that got them drawn-and-quartered? (Or whatever the punishment of that era was).
Hey, you can only have THREE seeds. ;’)
Good idea! Or, become fluent in Latin (and Spanish) before going.
I guess if I HAD to go, I'd want a printing press, movable type, and a book on paper-making, ink-formulation, press making, and how to make more movable type... and hope I ended up near a monastery.
Good point. My Vit C are rose hips based.......duh?
I was thinking about the extra minerals and multi, people didn’t eat processed breads, it was would have been substantial and whole grains (like that stuff we pay $5 a loaf for now, or make our own).
Mutton/cows probably would have been the most common meat, and root vegetables in the colder climates and a few other things in the warmer.
Here is an interesting article from the BBC, if you are curious.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/british_prehistory/ironage_intro_01.shtml
I know there are people who study these sorts of things, there must be lots of information out there.
If you’re going to park a car in cave, make it a Delorean. Confuse both archeologists and film makers.
A Freeper would still be zotted by Viking Kitties. Standard
punishment in any era.
Saurkraut is also an adequate source of Vitamin C. I remember reading about how healthy the Polish were with their large quantities of saurkraut. Actually the acidic quality enhances mineral absorption of other foods eaten at the same time. When my husband was fighting in Korea he made a point of learning to eat Kimchee. This Korean form of saurkraut, containing hot peppers (more C), is kept in jugs/vats outside each house in the countryside. He figures if he was ever captured and escaped he could travel at night back to US lines, eating kimchee as he went.
Good idea!
I commend to all of your attention Henri Pirenne's Mohammed and Charlemagne, now available in an inexpensive Dover paperback, and the follow-up by Emmet Scott, Mohammed and Charlemagne Revisited new with year, which uses more recent archeological evidence to support and extend Pirenne's thesis that the collapse of classical civilization in the West was caused by the rise of Islam, not the Germanic barbarians (who by and large signed up to be Romans, so long as they got high places in government -- except for the Vandals, all of the Germanic kings in the West still owed at least theoretical allegiance to the Emperor in Constantinople, issuing coinage with the Emperor's picture, rather than their own, and even the Vandal kingdom in North Africa organized its administrative, economic and cultural life in the Roman pattern).
It depends where one ends up. The papyrus supply having been shut down by the Muslim conquest of Egypt (and Muslim piracy in the Mediterranean), most Bibles in Western Europe were on parchment, to very expensive to be in general circulation in the impoverished economy. In the still-wealthy, though besieged Empire, literacy remained the norm throughout the middle ages, despite the need to use parchment, and there were copies of the Scriptures in circulation among the populace. Guessing that someone who wants to bring a Bible, rather than trusting the eight century Church with the care of his soul is a protestant, I would suggest that trailhkr1 might find ending up in Constantinople congenial — in 742, the Imperial throne was held by an iconoclast, and the best evidence we have is that the iconoclasts were sort of proto-protestants (their Eucharistic theology expressed by the Iconoclastic Council of Hieria in 754 was that the Eucharist is the only “true icon” of Christ, and thus prefigured the “a symbol only” position of the later protestants).
For number 1 (a), you’re too late.
By 742, the Muslims held North Africa, the Levant and Spain.
The main reason is that classical civilization collapsed (cf. Henri Pirenne’s work) was the rise of Islam.
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