If you were sent alone and without any resources back in time

>>61075092
No, I can't do any of that shit. I can make an electromagnet with a chemical battery, some copper wire and a nail. That's the limit of my engineering knowledge.

All I could do is convince a world power I have future knowledge and then secure a comfy life for myself by bartering my knowledge of future events. I would do my best to convince fuckers that space is possible and it should be privatized so we can get SpaceX rolling around 1950 like it should have been. We'd be on fucking Mars already.

electricity/electromagnetism I could probably do. I also might be able to do refrigeration and an internal combustion engine over time. I dont really know how to make a vacuum or how to build transistors/resistors, so I dont think I'd be able to do a light bulb or computer. If I found someone actually smart who didnt think I was a heretic or something to team up with and point in the right direction, I could probably accomplish exponentially more than by myself

Technological advancement comes on top of humanitarian advancement, keeping a lot of smart loyal healthy open minded people around will be the hard part, we are talking about a period of time with religious war in Europe, send me back 200 years not 500 and watch me rule the fucking world with my knowledge, 500 years ago not gonna happen.

I'd invent calculus and properly introduce limits.

>>61075092
i'd invent bicycle, air baloonm wings and steam engine. Easiest things to recreate at that age, also i'd like to be in italy or china for that or burning it is.

>>61075458
pretty sure math in 15th c was rather advanced or most cathedrals wouldn't be built

>>61075394
religious wars were in 1400s, 1500s is so called autumn of middle ages and pretty much renaissance when kings slowly started to take interest in science

>>61075092
With enough try and error I could probably create a simple steam engine

>not becoming a landsknecht and raping your way through europe

>>61075613
>also sitting on stake put through your ass by peasants

when was french peasant appraisal again?

I'd invent soap first,

>>61075092
Develop smokeless gunpowder and push my country's warfare technology some 300 years forwards. You'd all be speaking Polish now.

>>61075092
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAL3JXZSzSm8AlZyD3nQdBA