Vaguely remember that fire can be made by rubbing two sticks together.
Try to make fire.
Fail.
Get kicked out of tribe for wasting time with sticks instead of helping with the hunt.
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Born back then so no idea of the future probably? Fire was invented like a million years before or around that, so I'm probably cooking food. I like cooking the food. Dying during childbirth??
Probably also my fate. Cooking the food, dying during childbirth. Would be blissfully unaware of what a stock market is. Upsides, downsides.
Go to very deep cave. Then write down "θ΅ζ¬δΈ»δΉζ―δΈζ¬‘ι½δΌε―Όθ΄ζ³θ₯Ώζ―δΈ»δΉ"
Develop whatever language exists, find methods of timekeeping and recording history. I vaguely remember something about the first humans getting eaten a lot so maybe my priorities are in the wrong place
Main question is do I have modern knowledge or not?
If yes - then apply everything I know from primitive technology and education. Will try to reach some level of progress, probably will be able to get to steam machines and telegraph in one lifetime.
If no - then will be just strolling with everyone and enjoying nature as usual.
How? You'd need metallurgy for that
Having access to the raw materials is the hard part, depending on where you are. If the place your or any other tribes migrates around lacks the raw rocks, you're shit outta luck.
Copper and tin are relatively easy to work, as you can melt the metal into an earthen or sand mold. A furnace that can melt it isn't too hard to create. From that to a steam engine isn't that big of a jump, the Greeks figured that out but never thought about making it do labor.
Another hurdle is surviving long enough, as you wouldn't have access to sanitation or medicine.
Dude saying just melting some ore is enought and then you basicly have a steam engine is so wild. Do you have any experience in metal working? How would you create the round parts like the piston and the bore? What about valves? The greek steam enigne woold have not created significant power for anything usefull. I would bet that most of you in this thread would not be able to build a steam engine from metal if you had acess to a home depot.
Ok just out of curiosity, how do you plan to generate power for your telegraphing? Also how do you plan to get the information out of the circuit on the other end?
Cry, poop, or do other newborn stuff. But what else do babies actually do? π
Look around for some andesite, granite, or flint, and copper. Use those to make tools. Instantly get promoted to the top of the human monkey group because I "know magic" of fire and stone. I'm an apprentice smith.
Probably spend the rest of my life making one of those Roman 12 sided smithing test things that historians can't figure out what it is.
I'm not sure that you meant born because everyone is taking it too literally and it doesn't help make a decent question.
Document everything I can think of for future people and put it in a place that someone will find out but is not that open to be degradation.
I know how impossible this sounds.
Reconsider?
Grunt and probably be dead long before I become an adult.
Not sure how accurate my memory of the modern world map would be for that far back but depending on "where I spawned in" I would try and migrate to like ideal farmland or somewhere I know is good to build up.
If I was near Iberia I'd probably try for Cordoba.... Western America, I'd go for San Francisco or anywhere near Lake Tulare... I'm sure there's more than I am remembering right now.
I wouldn't have to worry about organized religion having immense crusades and could carve out a little kingdom.
Try to make a modest "fortress" out of ashlar blocks or anything I can make primitively. Try to find a way to record as much "hints" towards technological progress for my descendants to follow.
Fertilizer, Germs, Animal Husbandry, Public Works (Dams), Canning, Gunpowder (not idea of gun just explosives, but they'll probably weaponize it), steam power, oil, electricity, refrigeratation, concept of computers.
It'll probably just have to be drawings but if I can find a cool gal and learn her language enough to roll with it then it'll just have to be that, No point in writing it in English.
If I can actually get to the point of building a steam/wobbler engine that would probably be my life goal.
Throw in ancient technologies that are cool like Yakchals(?) and what not to actually survive to that point.
You'd have fun with Vintage Story.
Immediately get wrecked by one of the many megafauna that would still be alive.
Suicide
Jerk it
As a new born I guess:
- Find my moms breast
- Drink milk
- Sleep
- Pee and poop
- GOTO 1
I suppose next would be die because of the infant mortality rate
Tits, self relief and death? Thatβs one more thing than Iβm guaranteed at the moment, where do I sign up?
Obvious first question, are we friends with dogs yet?
Who else read the entire wiki page?
ok I am gonna get in on that shit wayyy ahead of the curve/maybe probably be eaten by dire wolves
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Enjoy the fact that capitalism won't exist for another couple hundred millenia
Feudalism was worse, and despotism was even worse than that.
We got like 220k years to spare. We're good.
Survive, get that weird fruit and have sex.
And to go to "there", it seems nice "there", why shouldn't we go "there"? It doesn't have other people "there".
People long ago are not that different from us, like people from the middle ages, they acted like us now because they ARE like us now.
There's no real evidence that people are smarter today than they were 5000 years or so ago. We just have more knowledge/technology.
do some weird ass draws on walls stuff
confused unga bunga
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