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For questions related to the Renaissance era, on an equivalent era where there is a flourishing of knowledge, arts and all fields of human endeavor.
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Taking notes in a fantasy world that resembles our own early Renaissance?
Parchment was very expensive, just like today. Parchment was never ever used for taking notes; only documents intended to be durable, or valuable books, were written on parchment.
They would most lik …
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Traveling from place to place in 1530
There was no way to go directly from Florence to Bologna in a carriage before modern times. In 1530, a willful traveller who insisted on going straight from Florence to Bologna would travel 2 or 3 day …
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How to recreate units of measure?
You've got it backwards.
He doesn't need to recreate the SI units precisely, at least not until the science and technology is sufficiently advanced.
What he needs is a stick of roughly one meter, and …
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Mining Based Civilisation
The Ore Mountains
As luck would have it, there actually was an area in Europe during the Renaissance which had a mining based economy and a near monopoly on various metal resources, mostly silver, but … There were no "warriors" in Renaissance Europe. There were soldiers, usually mercenaries -- during the 30 Years' War only Sweden had a national army. …
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How might airships be made using 18th century technology?
Sorry but no. No aluminium and no internal combustion engines means no airships.
You must have aluminium -- there is no substitute for its combination of strength and lightness; and to smelt alumini …
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How would medieval/Renaissance-era castles protect themselves from air raids?
Because:
In a world without gunpowder there are no fortifications resembling late western European medieval or Renaissance fortifications, because late western European medieval and Renaissance fortifications … You cannot have a medieval or Renaissance society with steam engines and airships. …
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