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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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[–] [email protected] 35 points 9 months ago (3 children)

If I'm going to be transported to the European peninsula too, besides time travelling, I'd want at least:

  • my laptop. Download everything from multiple Wikipedias, including the Italian one for good measure. (Why Italian? Largest Wikipedia in a Romance language that I'm proficient with.)
  • some charger for the above. I don't even mind if manual.
  • Latin vocabulary printed book. I can speak some but I'm not proficient in the language.
  • Some silver and gold. Money back in Roman times was still based on the value of the coins. And money never hurts.
  • Clothes carefully prepared to not look Roman, but typical enough from the times. The idea is to pass as a cultured barbarian from a tribe that is too far away from Rome to bother.
[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You're going to need medicine. Penicillin for sure.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Penicillin might be a good idea, but once you set up some simple electricity production, you can generate bleach (electrolyse brine, then input the chlorine back into solution; discard the hydrogen). Being able to bleach your water is huge.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Unless you accidentally get wood splinter and die of gangrene.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

I find it uncanny just how close this reply is to an idle thought I've had for many years.

[–] Nicarlo 4 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Power has yet to be invented. Once your laptop dies it becomes uselesss. Batteries deteriorate over time and without the latest security patches you'll definitely get infected sooner rather than later.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Power has yet to be invented. Once your laptop dies it becomes uselesss.

That's why I mentioned a charger in the following line.

Batteries deteriorate over time

Sure, that is a concern. For a few years later; the idea is to at least have at hand some knowledge to translate into Latin and put into useful applications.

Also, remember that electricity can be produced with a bar of copper, a bar of iron, and some acid. Such as vinegar or even citrus.

and without the latest security patches you’ll definitely get infected sooner rather than later.

Yeah, because Mark Anthony will totally send me files like cleopatrahotpix.jpg.exe [/sarcasm]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Take a solar charger, problem solved

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago

No need to worry, those security patches would be millennia ahead of any contemporaneous trojans.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

without the latest security patches you'll definitely get infected sooner rather than later

By what?

[–] [email protected] 35 points 9 months ago

Trojan Horse virus

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah you gotta watch out for those ancient roman black hats. Or togas.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Tunicae? "Per Hercle, tunicae nigrae sunt diri - computatrum meum inuaserunt! Merda!" doesn't sound too bad.