If you were sent back to the roman era and could only bring a backpack of goods. What would you bring?

  • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    You don’t have to change a million peasants, just one aristocrat. Remember, they would import a boat load of wild animals from Africa for one show at the Circus. That kind of money could buy a lot of top workmen.

    You don’t need an entire railroad, just a few hundred Napoleonic rifles.

    One watchmaker can train fifty more in a lifetime.

    Take your example of the telescope. Imagine what one telescope would mean to an army of the time. You could send out scouts with signal flags that could be spotted a day’s ride away.