If you jumped through a portal back to the year 1300AD
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I'd put £1 in a bank account for meself
Good luck finding a bank. The only bankers about were the Templars and we all know what happened to them, and their money.
Show something of great enough value and they will pay for a team of translators and teachers to work with you
Go on, try it! And no cheating!
EDIT: Just had a go myself and my, I think the scale is a bit off...
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Or just torture it out of you, accuse you of heresy and witchcraft after which they'll put you to the stake, either butt first or just set it alight. If you're lucky both.
Or just torture it out of you, accuse you of heresy and witchcraft after which they'll put you to the stake, either butt first or just set it alight. If you're lucky both.
show it to the rich guy not the freaking pope
Portable gas cooker or Lighter... Easy fire.
Is that viable?
Yeah sure it's viable, CalorGas...Est 1138AD.
I'd invent football.
Already done by 1300. Football is thought to go back possibly as far as the Roman occupation. It was certainly around in 1300 - there are good records from that time.
It was different to modern football, as it was essentially a fight between different villages with a ball involved. Goal in each village, any number of players on each side, rules not much more than "no weapons".
Not as much as you might think. Bright colours were popular amongst people with money. It was a way of displaying wealth, because good dyed cloth was expensive.
The rich guy was the freaking Pope...
there are plenty of lord around
throughout history there have always been rich blokes willing to ignore god and the church for the chance to go down in history... and become unimaginably rich along the way
like whatshisname the guy who employed one of the pioneers of electricity to build him a generator and fit his house with lightbulbs and all sorts of electrical amenities long before they where even considered by others.
Yeah sure it's viable, CalorGas...Est 1138AD.
Read something intersting last night on a similar subject. We would know the currency (well if you're reasonably old). Pounds, Shillings and Pence were "invented" in the 8th century, only changed in 1970whatever when we changed to decimal! Pretty damn impressive! Apparently the oldest currency still going.
If they were. It's not certain that the Death in northern Europe and Britain was yersenia pestis spread by fleas. There's some evidence it was a virus or both, e.g. CCR5-delta32 mutation rates or the fact that quarantining people (which wouldn't quarantine fleas) did stop the spread of disease in some cases.
Promoting quarantining would probably be the best I could do. Or just set the portal to 1200 instead
there are plenty of lord around
throughout history there have always been rich blokes willing to ignore god and the church for the chance to go down in history... and become unimaginably rich along the way
like whatshisname the guy who employed one of the pioneers of electricity to build him a generator and fit his house with lightbulbs and all sorts of electrical amenities long before they where even considered by others.
Good luck with attempting to find a non-religious Lord or Monarch in 13th Century Europe. Patronage did not come into common practice until the Renaissance. Feudal Lords would have just tortured the info out of you or had you bonded or indentured.
Someone has got it right.
Many people have mentioned being killed for witchcraft - that wouldn't have happened in England in 1300. The official position then was, and had been for a long time, that witchcraft didn't exist and couldn't exist. It wasn't until later that the authorities changed their position.
It's unlikely that you'd be burned at the stake for anything in England, though, not even heresy. Hanging was almost always used for execution in England. Corpses might be burnt afterwards to prevent the evil spirits returning or whatever babble they believed in. Even when people were burnt at the stake, it was common to kill them first.
The French burnt heretics accusing them of 'witchcraft' or 'Devil Worship' 'Apostasy' which to the French was pretty much the same thing. This was evident during the Templar Trials of 1307, Jacques De Molay was branded a self-confessed Apostate of Hell, Homosexual, purveyour of satanic ritual and although he retracted all the confessions he made under torture, he was was burned alive at the Stake in 1314. Witch-hunts were common in Southern France, Switzerland and parts of Germany throughout the 14th Century.
Hanging was the method of choice in England, although heretics would have had their head removed and been buried face down rather than burned. Witchcraft was never a very popular accusation in England, even during the witch hunts of the 1600's, Self proclaimed Witchfinder General Matthew Hopkins for example only operated in a small area of England and only for around a year before either dying of TB or being burned for witchcraft himself depending on which source you believe.
Prior to 1644, Witchcraft and Heresy were treated seperately unless it was
proven that a witch has 'powers' or had held ritualistic cabals in which case they were charged with the greater crime of Heresy. Many Heretics were tortured and Impaled before burning.
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Sounds like a typical mid week match down at Millwall