Timeline for What non-intuitive modern items would be useful in a medieval-ish world?
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| Mar 31, 2023 at 18:26 | answer | added | Pablo H | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 16, 2020 at 11:03 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Oct 26, 2015 at 20:14 | comment | added | Cano64 | Plumbus, used one is worth six and a half brapples! | |
| Jul 10, 2015 at 19:24 | answer | added | Jason Hutchinson | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 10, 2015 at 17:24 | answer | added | Meridian | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 1, 2015 at 15:22 | vote | accept | Cain | ||
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| Jul 1, 2015 at 5:34 | answer | added | Raestloz | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 1, 2015 at 5:11 | answer | added | user8887 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 1, 2015 at 0:45 | answer | added | user3652621 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 30, 2015 at 22:17 | history | edited | Cain | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 28, 2015 at 22:20 | answer | added | Thucydides | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jun 27, 2015 at 15:32 | answer | added | Adam Phelps | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jun 27, 2015 at 15:26 | answer | added | Seth | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jun 27, 2015 at 14:58 | answer | added | thkala | timeline score: 18 | |
| Jun 27, 2015 at 6:14 | comment | added | Erik | @Cain I think you need to update the question with all of thise information. | |
| Jun 27, 2015 at 2:36 | answer | added | Just for fun... | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jun 26, 2015 at 22:47 | answer | added | Henry Taylor | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jun 26, 2015 at 22:38 | comment | added | Monica Cellio | Did any books survive or are they long gone? | |
| Jun 26, 2015 at 22:36 | answer | added | Formagella | timeline score: 12 | |
| Jun 26, 2015 at 22:19 | comment | added | BrettFromLA | I picture Ariel from Little Mermaid combing her hair with a fork. | |
| Jun 26, 2015 at 22:13 | comment | added | Cain | @SeanBoddy OK, to get more into details: Humanity reached a peak of technology at a few hundred years from our current time. Not far enough that there was anything super revolutionary, but more people, bigger bombs, better weapons etc. Some cataclismic event, human triggered, happened. Involved widespread destruction, think nuclear war but not necessarily radiation poisoning. The few, <.01% survivors were people already somewhat isolated from society. Cities and towns are gone, blown up, but anything more than 100 miles from nearest town survived. Fast-forward a few thousand years | |
| Jun 26, 2015 at 21:42 | comment | added | user8827 | Actually my point is the opposite - depending on exactly what happened, an ordinary dark age wouldn't take most metal out of circulation long enough to actually lose it. You need a timeline. If there was an apocolypse and mass die off, what was it? How long ago? What peak of tech was achieved? Where did everything go and why? A million years wasn't enough to keep us from finding dinosaurs. The timeline will better inform you and us what exactly is laying around, and what is scarce - scarcity drives value, period. | |
| Jun 26, 2015 at 20:33 | answer | added | Dan Smolinske | timeline score: 8 | |
| Jun 26, 2015 at 20:24 | comment | added | Cain | @Erik Millenia. Long enough for society to become advanced, send itself back to the stone age without actually blowing up the planet, and then re-develop to a medieval level of technology | |
| Jun 26, 2015 at 20:14 | comment | added | Cain | @SeanBoddy So no large amount of metal would be left, you're right. However, small amounts, the kind you might even find around today like an old piece of ReBar or small metal items could still be found. | |
| Jun 26, 2015 at 20:12 | comment | added | Erik | How "far in the future" are we talking? Centuries? Millenia? Longer? | |
| Jun 26, 2015 at 19:53 | comment | added | user8827 | I was going to post, but i need to know more about how this developed. Metals are wildly important, but they are SO important that i doubt they ever sat long enough to be buried in sedimentary rock. | |
| Jun 26, 2015 at 19:22 | comment | added | iAdjunct | Precision firearms and reloading equipment is one example; you could defend your castle with a few snipers instead of an army of archers. | |
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| Jun 26, 2015 at 19:16 | history | edited | Cain | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Clarified characteristics vs item generation
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| Jun 26, 2015 at 19:08 | comment | added | Cain | @Samuel Maybe I should clarify the question, but I'm looking for characteristics, not a list of items. A single best answer will be the one who's set of characteristics would logically define whether any given item would be looted and sold or not | |
| Jun 26, 2015 at 19:06 | comment | added | Cain | @Aify In the future science might be redeveloped, but at the current time it doesn't exist, and isn't in developement. Additionally, we're talking a long period of time, anything delicate like circuit boards, lightting filaments etc will have dissolved already. | |
| Jun 26, 2015 at 18:58 | comment | added | Samuel | I don't see a way this is not idea generation. Can you explain how a single best answer will be selected? | |
| Jun 26, 2015 at 18:49 | comment | added | Aify | But at some point someone's bound to start studying science, and eventually they'll rediscover the way things work - eg: the lemon can somehow power a small clock, and then one thing leads to another and you can build new batteries and stuff. You have to explain WHY none of it works. | |
| Jun 26, 2015 at 18:44 | history | edited | Cain | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Constraint that society does not remember ancient times
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| Jun 26, 2015 at 18:42 | comment | added | Cain | You just reminded me of a great point I forgot to mention! Thanks! But no, people have also lost knowledge of previous times. | |
| Jun 26, 2015 at 18:32 | comment | added | Aify | Does ALL electricity not work? We could just build our own batteries via lemons and potatos + metal wire... | |
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| Jun 26, 2015 at 18:26 | history | asked | Cain | CC BY-SA 3.0 |