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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? (sh.itjust.works)

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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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[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 35 points 5 months ago

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.

[-] Nicarlo@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago

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.

[-] ProperlyProperTea@lemmy.ml 17 points 5 months ago

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

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