In the past, there was a time when you were more likely to die in the toilet than in the bath. And now you are going there with an educational mission. It's up to you now. Let's show the Middle Ages how this happens.
Will you be tempted as a witch?
Can you cure all diseases?
Or will you accidentally create a new epidemic?
It's easy to write the Middle Ages as a backward time for hygiene and technology. Although you may think that church and science are in conflict with each other, nothing can happen beyond reality.
Some religious leaders believed that scientific progress celebrated the divine Creator of humanity. From mathematics to nature studies, these fields provided scholars with information that the churches thought was a better understanding of God's work.
If we did not have the development of that time, we would not have any technology today. So if you make a temporary trip to the European Middle Ages with your cell phone, the technology inside can be embraced by this developing society. But how do you recharge it?
Historians call the years between 500 and 1500 AD medieval. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, new social norms emerged with the spread of Christianity. But if you go back to Europe at this time, your presence and technology can accelerate this era in a different form of enlightenment. So don't worry, those torches are not for you. .
If you want to make this world a better place, you can start in the bathroom. During this time the upper class built toilets called guardrobes. These devices were dropping everything into the ditch on the sides and below the forts.
This unhealthy environment produces bacteria that spread diseases like cholera, which can kill you in hours. Introducing a sewerage system made of toilet paper and bricks will prevent many early deaths. But what about other diseases?
Better hygiene technology will not cure everything. Smallpox was a deadly disease that affected about 33%. And we didn't invent a vaccine for it until 1796. Bringing this vaccine back to the Middle Ages may not work as you expected, because you will run out of it, and you will have no way to make more.
But Dr. Edward Jenner, the inventor of the smallpox vaccine, found that cow's milk-infected cows were immune to the disease. So if you bring back CoPix and use it to infect people, you can create an initial immunity to one of the deadliest viruses in the world. Although the Cowpox epidemic can take many lives, it will kill far fewer people than smallpox. And you may have to wear a mask for the first few weeks, so that you don't spread the virus in the future.
And now that you have cured Europe of a deadly disease, it is time to get rid of it. Although the discovery of electricity dates back to the ancient Greeks, this concept is still a mere abstract thought in the Middle Ages. But you can show Europeans how to use the materials they have and build the world's first electrical grid.
You can teach people to take copper, melt it and carefully put it in the wire by hand. Then, using a magnet, you can create an electric charge and direct it wherever you need it. You still have to teach people how to make light bulbs, solar panels and engines. You will set the stage for a new era of communication.
Printing presses could become electronic hundreds of years ago, and images and text could be transmitted worldwide. Knowledge will not be limited to those who can afford it. But even with the power grid, can you use your cell phone?
With the electronic system, you can finally recharge your phone, not to mention your time machine. The changes you have made will accelerate the development of humanity. And the future in which you grew up cannot be. So what if you took this time machine 1 billion years into the future?
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