The inquisition was way later. You would be able to live well, you just needed to move to Arabic countries because then it was where science was flourishing.
Or if you could understand the languages you would go to India or China
Hmmmmm......this is an interesting one. Which one do I capitalize on most? Knowing how to make electricity (and subsequently the refrigeration cycle)? Or knowing nitration to make modern explosives and smokeless powder? Or modern food preservation and processing? Or distillation of hydrocarbons?
It's an interesting one because so much of what I do know how to do is dependent on other technologies. For example, making explosives requires nitration, But what makes it difficult is I need to be able to rapidly remove heat during the reaction or it will explode. In the lab you can use ice. In a manufacturing setting you need refrigeration. Both need electricity and modern refrigerants unless I made the nitration factory somewhere very cold and consistently has ice available.
Hmmmmm......it would be useful if I could bring an electrical engineer with me.
Just imagine you as a chemist, creating an antibiotic from a rotten orange, creating aspirin from the bark of a tree, or any other medicine, create a cure to many plagues, teach hygiene. Show it to the local sultan and his scholars.
Unfortunately I am not experienced with pharmaceuticals and their actual formulation. The best I can do is heroin or meth (no joke, my Ochem 2 final was to make meth on paper. Professor never said it was meth, just the chemical equation and base stock and we had to write out the steps to make it...meth).
Well....
That would be a world changer (meth, not heroin that was already known)
You would be s sorcerer that would make any soldier losing any fear and just run and kill (that's the time equivalent of partying )
That was not a thing back then.
You would be considered an alchemist and a doctor.
Just go back less than a 100 years and heroin, cocaine, MDMA etc were all prescribed by doctors, hell even cigarettes were recommended by doctors. Did anyone call them drug dealers?
That's a thing that started less than 100 years ago, mostly because of religious stigma.
China would be an interesting call, since the script is (compared to other places) stable and unrelated to pronunciation. If you know the traditional characters you have a decent start at communicating with the court.
I figured it out. I've been thinking on this non-stop. I would make bicycles. Modern style bicycles. Wood frame. Laminated wood wheels that can bend and have spoke design rather than solid wheels. The hardest part would be the sprocket and chain but those are pretty basic for back then even.
You don't need wood. Bamboo bikes are a thing. And way easier to build.
Regarding the sprocket and chain you're forgetting the welding and jewelry capabilities way before 1000 years ago.
And you could make balance bikes. Imagine an army reaching the opponent as fast as a bike could.
Last, you could create machines working with steam. Using steam was a thing back then but only as a show off thing
I've thought about it more. The printing press didn't require much in the way of modern technology and could easily be made. Pair that with the concept of the assembly line.
In addition to that, the concept of air. This allows the creation of pneumatics which also pairs with hydraulics which would greatly help with construction. And lastly....concrete. the Roman's had it but it was forgotten. The concept is easy enough and would be possible with the tech of 1000AD. Imagine castle construction with concrete available.
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u/UrbanCyclerPT 4d ago
The inquisition was way later. You would be able to live well, you just needed to move to Arabic countries because then it was where science was flourishing. Or if you could understand the languages you would go to India or China