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I’m transported to a street in the Roman Empire 169 AD. Not Rome. I only have my current knowledge. I don’t speak Latin but I’ll learn over time. My goal is to give Humanity a jump forward. What is my strategy? What could I say to convince people I’m from the future and get an audience with the emperor. What knowledge should I try to implement or give the scientists that we’ll be the most beneficial. I can’t carry anything written with me. I can wear modern clothing (what should I wear.) I can’t bring anything with me but my clothes. Help Farcaster! What do? (Outdated map for reference)
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The biggest hurdle would be to avoid capture. Strange looking barbarian who doesn't speak Latin? To the slave pens with you. I doubt there's anything you could say to convince people you're from the future. It might get you killed more than anything. Instead, I'd play it as someone from a distant land, where unknown knowledge exists. If this is not against the spirit of your challenge, I'd suggest exploiting the clothes rule to come with something flashy, embroided with diamonds, gold... Something you could trade for, and flamboyant enough you could pass as a rich prince from abroad. Then as you secure resources and start to learn Latin, you also focus on gathering materials for trivial electric experiments. Copper and iron, glass, cloth, vinegar. You build a voltaic pile, an electromagnet, and try to make a tiny light/glow. Hopefully you convince a few people with that experience. You pool resources and efforts to build basic water wheels and wind turbines.
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This gets you practical applications like small lights, tiny motors. More relevantly for the "wow" factor, a basic telegraph system. With the many applications (including military) of long-distance communication, this is where you hopefully catch the attention of the Emperor, or at least someone ranked highly enough.
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This is exactly what I was wondering. What knowledge would be most useful immediately. Excellent points and I’ll go brush up on that because you never know.
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