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

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[–] Plibbert@lemmy.ml 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Either 1, a bunch of textbooks and encyclopedias. Or 2, a tablet/computer with said texts downloaded, a battery pack for said tablet/computer, and a few fold out solar panels or maybe one of those hand crank things. If I still have space I'd bring a soldering iron, a bunch of tips for it, flux and a bunch of different solders. Maybe a few spare parts for the laptop.

[–] LanternEverywhere@kbin.social 9 points 10 months ago

Tablet with tons of downloaded info + solar panels is my answer too. If you were wise about how you used the info you could be a demigod. Just knowing the process of how to refine aluminum could make you the wealthiest person on the planet.

[–] Jumi@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The question that must be answered first is: Do I stay where I am or do I come out somewhere else?

[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Right, I'm in Australia, I'd be boned

[–] RisingSwell@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I mean, still people there, and the tech and stuff would be helpful even if any translation materials wouldn't be relevant anymore

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[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

An Uzi, lots of ammo, some gold, and instructions on how to make steel, precision lathes and mills, lasers, silicone, computer chips, computers, nuclear reactors, internal combustion engines, rifles, the complete works of Sir Isaac Newton, Einstein, Hawkins, and everyone else, translated into Latin, and a bunch of other shit. I'm going to get into Caesar's favor and propel humanity forward 2000 years. Long live Rome!

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[–] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 10 months ago

A latin/english dictionary.

[–] RagnarokOnline@programming.dev 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Do I have to go? They didn’t even have A/C back then :/

[–] LanternEverywhere@kbin.social 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

For rich people there were passive air cooling systems available. And if you were truly wealthy you could have blocks of ice shipped to you

https://blogs.getty.edu/iris/how-ancient-romans-kept-their-cool/

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (3 children)

For rich people there were passive air cooling systems available

Bro for rich people there were active air cooling systems.

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[–] SanndyTheManndy@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Spices, all knowledge I can carry as microfiche tapes, magnifying glass, a domesticated strain of penicillin, and seeds of modern crops.

I will be able to talk to at least some of their merchants for, ahem, reasons. From then on I have at least some chance of survival.

[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Some vacuum packs to seal and save silphium from extinction.

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[–] Nomecks@lemmy.ca 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Tablets with a shitload of how to build books on it, several small solar chargers and USB cables.

[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 11 points 10 months ago

"Your device is not connected to the Internet so we can't confirm you aren't stealing something so we will just assume you are. Error code: SUCK DICK"

[–] theodewere@kbin.social 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

i'd fill it up with a variety of bulk spices

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[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 8 points 10 months ago (3 children)

A gun and plenty of ammo. Don't need anything else to be Caesar.

[–] DdCno1@kbin.social 10 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Speaking of Caesar, I think you vastly overestimate how useful a gun is against a bunch of determined guys with knives.

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[–] verity_kindle@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Maps. Lots of laminated maps of North Africa and the Middle East. Every time I run low on silver pennies to pay my palm frond air conditioner, I sell one more map.

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Guns.

"Y'all don't need to stab Julius. I got you. And you, too, Brutus."

[–] CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Sent back in time, but at the same place as I am now?

How large is the time travel device, does it fit into a backpack?

[–] humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Now I want to rewatch Primer.

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Every time I rewatch Primer, I go in thinking, "This is going to be the time I fully understand this movie!" Then, half way through, I'm thinking "What was so complicated about this? This isn't bad at all." Then I get to the last 20 minutes and I remember.

Then I go watch a 'Primer Explained' video that's almost as long as the movie itself, am satisfied for a while, and then some time in the future the cycle repeats itself.

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[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 6 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Enough gold valuables to cover my funeral expenses since our bodies aren't capable of handling the bacteria in the water and food back then and we'd be dead in a week.

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[–] le_saucisson_masquay@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Without reading other answers, that certainly makes more sense than mine, I would take a cake. Like the best cake i ever ate in my life and eat it all immediately after being sent in Roman era. Because if I'm getting fucked at least let's enjoy a last meal and nothing else i could take would matter. Guns, medicines,..? It would all run out anyway and it wouldn't make me king of something.

Edit: and also a bottle of good wine because Roman win tasted like vinegar.

[–] Nicarlo@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 months ago

This guy really loves cake

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