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Its the 14th century and you've had no time to prepare, after you're done reading this post you are snapped. What do you do?

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[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago

Probably die

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 12 points 4 days ago (7 children)

I'd make some fucking soap.

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[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 11 points 4 days ago

I would fall from a very high place

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 17 points 4 days ago (4 children)

1375....

We can work with metals, so we can probably make boilers.

I invent steam power 400 years early.

[–] superkret@feddit.org 17 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

You'd need metallurgy which was only invented in the process of building bigger naval guns, much later.
The issue was pressurizing the steam, which wasn't possible in the middle ages. You had no rubber for seals, no steel that would hold, and no tools to drill holes precisely enough.
That's why the Romans already used steam for simple parlor tricks but it couldn't be made to do actual work until the modern era

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[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 5 points 3 days ago

Probably not the answer you thought, but succeed by knowing there are wild animals that could easily kill me. It's either I die by that, or wait until the lack of my blood thinners kills me, sl I'd definitely take the quicker death than the slower one.

[–] Acamon@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days 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.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 13 points 4 days ago

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

I would basically become a Jewish witch and either build a small community of people or die of some ancient plague, either way I wouldn't be thriving but I might just survive.

[–] LordOfLocksley@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

I'd probably be dead in no time for a long list of reasons

First of all, nobisy would be able to understand me, as even current English would be barely recognizable by them

Then there is the issue that I'm probably at least a foot taller than most people and let's just say that "being even remotely different" back then was a good reason to be killed

Then there is the food issue. Food was scarce (hence most people being quite a bit shorter than me) so it'd be hard to keep myself fed. Clean water? Hah, good luck with that.

Then there is the issue of diseases. I probably carry shit that their bodies won't be able to handle, si being around me will likely make people sick, which in turn will get me labeled as a witch which would get me tortured and burned. Similarly but conversely, loads of diseases that were rampant back then are now gone, and likely my body is less equipped to handle that, I'd die from some disease

Ignoring all of that...

I'd probably start spreading the knowledge of democracy, and the harms of religion, and how important it is to immediately kill kings or king wannabes. I'd make a library with a vast wealth of knowledge and give access to the first country that successfully transforms itself to a representative atheist democracy with laws in place to ensure that no king, fascist, or wannabe will ever be able to rise up again.

That country would become the dominant world power within decades, spreading democracy and science over the world.

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Well I be naked, so would need to make/steal clothing very quickly

[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 11 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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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[–] mriormro@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Kookie215@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Don't threaten me with a good time.

[–] jagged_circle 5 points 4 days ago

This is very A Connecticut Yankee in King Author's Court

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Connecticut_Yankee_in_King_Arthur%27s_Court

I hated that book. So pretentious.

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