So, tomorrow morning, you wake up in King Arthur's England. Let's skip some of the obvious major problems, somehow magically, you DO speak olde english
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One of the things that's interesting to me about this is the question of how to get people to listen to begin with. Germ theory 600 years early would have astounding consequences, but who's going to listen to that weird outsider? Crop rotation even 100 years early would change the course of history, but who will listen to the guy that can't even use a hoe?
That's why I am still looking for something *flashy* that could be done to get yourself set up as important enough to give orders and have them obeyed.
So, what's come to mind for me on the "big flashys" is boiling water/charcoal filtration to prevent dysentery, Cholera, etcetera (incredibly important for an army on the march, not difficult, and would give a vast advantage to the army that knew it), making pipe bombs/single use canon (The unavailability of iron means probably out of wood), making milk not spoil for an extended period of time, etcetera.
I was surprised to read that European homes didn't have chimneys in AD 1000. So perhaps that's not super flashy, but it's quite easy to do, and the benefits are immediate and obvious.
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Depressing, but right up this alley.
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One of the things that's interesting to me about this is the question of how to get people to listen to begin with. Germ theory 600 years early would have astounding consequences, but who's going to listen to that weird outsider? Crop rotation even 100 years early would change the course of history, but who will listen to the guy that can't even use a hoe?
That's why I am still looking for something *flashy* that could be done to get yourself set up as important enough to give orders and have them obeyed.
So, what's come to mind for me on the "big flashys" is boiling water/charcoal filtration to prevent dysentery, Cholera, etcetera (incredibly important for an army on the march, not difficult, and would give a vast advantage to the army that knew it), making pipe bombs/single use canon (The unavailability of iron means probably out of wood), making milk not spoil for an extended period of time, etcetera.
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But treating it now -- you would have to work out the details, but an old treatment for cholera was molasses and sea salt in water.
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