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Hygiene.
How can you make money with that? Purveyor of scented soaps? ;)
Perish the thought that anyone might think either of those more important than making money, of course...
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How can you make money with that? Purveyor of scented soaps? ;)
There might be reasons for doing it other than making money. For instance, (1) making life more pleasant for yourself and (2) saving a whole lot of lives. Perish the thought that anyone might think either of those more important than making money, of course...
Still, there's an argument to be made that people can be better convinced of a need if there's something they think they have to buy.
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One of the commentors at Kotte's mentions that you could sell boiled water as "de-sprited water", good for all menner of medical procedures. Unfortunately, another commentor recognized that firewood would be difficult to access, and cow poo doesn't fire hot enough.
Why would firewood be difficult to find? I could be wrong, but I don't think the European deforestation had set in yet, at that time. Is the wood in most European forests not of sufficient quality?
First you have the Assati Shards series(1632, 1633, 1634)...basically a town in Virginia get transferred to Germany in 1632.
And then you have the Conrad the Engineer series, where you have a guy transported to 13th century Poland, just before the Mongol invasion.
But chances are, no matter where you wind up...you'll be dead within a week. Why? Simple...language barrier. You won't be able to understand a thing....even if you wind up in the most civilized English speaking country. So you'll probably wind up getting burned as a demon who is speaking in tongues
For example...this is what Beowulf's first few lines look like in original english.
Hwæt! We Gardena in geardagum,
þeodcyninga, þrym gefrunon,
hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon.
Oft Scyld Scefing sceaþena þreatum,What would you do to prepare if you knew the journey back in time would start in one hour?
What would you do to prepare if you knew the journey back in time would start in one hour?
Prediction is impossible, we all know that. What we don't know is that retrodiction is also impossible. History is a form of science fiction. The future is history that hasn't happened yet. History is the sensibility of one time, assessing another time, that it cannot possibly know. -- Bruce Sterling, http://www.viridiandesign.org/notes/1-25/Note%2000001.txt