EffortlessOps@sh.itjust.works to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agoIf you were sent back to the roman era and could only bring a backpack of goods. What would you bring?message-squaremessage-square186fedilinkarrow-up1155arrow-down17file-text
arrow-up1148arrow-down1message-squareIf you were sent back to the roman era and could only bring a backpack of goods. What would you bring?EffortlessOps@sh.itjust.works to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square186fedilinkfile-text
If you were sent back to the roman era and could only bring a backpack of goods. What would you bring?
minus-squaremistrgamin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up39·10 months agoI’m either gonna bring a bunch of ‘For Dummies’ books to speed up development and get executed or make a fortune selling meth and get executed
minus-squareIninewCrow@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up31·10 months agoLol … Roman Empire collapses 300 years before it’s time because of a meth crisis.
minus-squareivanafterall@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up15·10 months agoWhy not sell psychedelics and change history?
minus-squaremistrgamin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·10 months agoTurning Ceaser and his forces into tweakers won’t change history?
minus-square800XL@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·10 months agothey probably would have conquered the New World too.
minus-squareIninewCrow@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·10 months agoThey would have conquered the New World … in their minds!!!
minus-squareIninewCrow@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·10 months agoThen by the late Middle Ages we would have had the Holy Roman Pharmaceutical Corporation.
minus-squaregregorum@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·10 months agoPsychedelics were pretty common back then. However, they were mostly used in religious ceremonies.
minus-squaresatanmat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·10 months agoAnd a copy of the army improvised weapons manuals. Jump start military tech by 1000 years or so right quick
minus-squareLvxferre@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·10 months agoSix weights of charcoal, one of brimstone, and one of saltpetre. Done, you already advanced military tech by 800 years.
minus-squarepapalonian@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·10 months agoThe hilarious thing about the meth idea is that they’d run out and be centuries behind on having any clue as to how to get more. Unless those “For Dummies” books have expanded their catalogue since I’ve last looked.
I’m either gonna bring a bunch of ‘For Dummies’ books to speed up development and get executed or make a fortune selling meth and get executed
Lol … Roman Empire collapses 300 years before it’s time because of a meth crisis.
Why not sell psychedelics and change history?
Turning Ceaser and his forces into tweakers won’t change history?
they probably would have conquered the New World too.
They would have conquered the New World … in their minds!!!
Then by the late Middle Ages we would have had the Holy Roman Pharmaceutical Corporation.
Psychedelics were pretty common back then. However, they were mostly used in religious ceremonies.
And a copy of the army improvised weapons manuals.
Jump start military tech by 1000 years or so right quick
Six weights of charcoal, one of brimstone, and one of saltpetre. Done, you already advanced military tech by 800 years.
The hilarious thing about the meth idea is that they’d run out and be centuries behind on having any clue as to how to get more.
Unless those “For Dummies” books have expanded their catalogue since I’ve last looked.