What are the skills and knowledge you could actually bring & fully realize at some point in the past?

And we're taking this in the strictest, nerdiest, materialist lense. I don't care how smart you are you ain't making a steam engine the in bronze age, for instance.

So what could you create, with just your knowledge & period tools? What kind of institutional, technological, philosophical innovations could you realistically recreate? How would you interface with the social fabric of society to not be some crazed pariah who never positively influences the place they went?

    • duderium [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      And also teach the vikings how to not be huge fucking assholes. They called the Native Americans “skraelings,” which means “wretches.”

        • duderium [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          I think that was mostly an Aztec thing. The indigenous people the Vikings met were nicer to their kids than most people are today and AFAIK they didn’t do slavery or human sacrifice.

    • RamrodBaguette [comrade/them, he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I remember a decent timeline on AH.com (sadly can't find it) where a viking colony in Vinland loses contact with Europe, intermingles with the locals, and becomes the bedrock of a distinct nation.