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<blockquote data-quote="ArchfiendBobbie" data-source="post: 7733425" data-attributes="member: 6867728"><p>Actually, knowledge of germs is close to worthless in 1203 CE Europe. You don't have any way of proving it without technology that will be invented later, and medicine is too primitive to benefit; there's not enough surgery going on for germ theory to be a relevant medical advance yet. It doesn't even help on the personal care front, as bathing was common up until the Black Plague; it was because bath houses became death traps that Europe came to have the hygiene problems it's so famously associated with. If it wasn't for their technological limits on plumbing, quite possibly the hygiene issues would never have developed and germ theory may have had a lessened impact on modern medicine.</p><p></p><p>So, I guess you proved your point. You don't even know what would be useful information to take back to guarantee your survival <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" /></p><p></p><p>The discoveries they would benefit the most from, and which they could actually use, are plumbing and electricity. Either one is easy enough to explain in a manner that won't get you tried as a witch, and both use knowledge that has actually been around for centuries; the basics of modern plumbing existed back in Ancient Greece (and were incorporated, to a degree, in Greek Fire) and electricity in Ancient Babylon. Modern plumbing was only not figured out because of a lack of materials knowledge, and electricity was only proven because one man took a suggestion to go fly a kite literally.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ArchfiendBobbie, post: 7733425, member: 6867728"] Actually, knowledge of germs is close to worthless in 1203 CE Europe. You don't have any way of proving it without technology that will be invented later, and medicine is too primitive to benefit; there's not enough surgery going on for germ theory to be a relevant medical advance yet. It doesn't even help on the personal care front, as bathing was common up until the Black Plague; it was because bath houses became death traps that Europe came to have the hygiene problems it's so famously associated with. If it wasn't for their technological limits on plumbing, quite possibly the hygiene issues would never have developed and germ theory may have had a lessened impact on modern medicine. So, I guess you proved your point. You don't even know what would be useful information to take back to guarantee your survival :p The discoveries they would benefit the most from, and which they could actually use, are plumbing and electricity. Either one is easy enough to explain in a manner that won't get you tried as a witch, and both use knowledge that has actually been around for centuries; the basics of modern plumbing existed back in Ancient Greece (and were incorporated, to a degree, in Greek Fire) and electricity in Ancient Babylon. Modern plumbing was only not figured out because of a lack of materials knowledge, and electricity was only proven because one man took a suggestion to go fly a kite literally. [/QUOTE]
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