How long would an average 4chan basement dweller survive, if

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>>3297321
eh id give them 3 days before they starve to death

that or they get murdered by bandits who want his modern gimmedats

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I dunno why don't you tell us op?

>>3297321
I'll apply to join a monastery.

About tree fiddy

>>3297321
Not longer than a couple of days. They'd be unable to communicate in Old English/French/Norse etc. If they knew Latin or Greek they might be able to enter a monastery or manorial court.

>inb4 I'm literate, therefore I'd be in demand

No you wouldn't.

>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy#Ancient_and_Post-classical_literacy

>it is unlikely that literacy was found in more than 30-40% of the population.

One in three people could read, and they'd have an advantage over you in that they could do so in Latin or Greek, and possibly their vernacular. You can only write Modern English/French/etc., which was mutually unintelligible with ancient varieties.
Furthermore, they'd be familiar with vernacular written conventions now obsolete, like thorn and yogh.

The best you could probably do is attach yourself to some bumfuck local lord to write up tax documents, etc., and even then you'd have to learn Latin and the vernacular pretty quick.

Even if a monastery or manorial lord took you, you'd eventually eat something bad, or get an ear infection, or catch the flu, and die. Most people alive in first-world countries today only survived infancy because of modern medicine, and are being propped up thereby. Even simple things like needing glasses. Ever wonder why the Bible, etc. has so many blind people in it? If someone was near/farsighted enough, that made them effectively blind, and you were unsuitable for anything other than sitting by the city gate begging for alms. You were fucked.

Honestly the average well fed modern guy would be much bigger then the average middle ages person. So they might make a decent warrior.

>>3297329
Have you ever even touched a a Bible? Do you know Latin?

>>3297349 here again. Just checked on my "most people alive..." statement, that wasn't quite accurate:

https://ourworldindata.org/child-mortality/

>In 1800 the health conditions of our ancestors were such that 43% of the world’s newborns died before their 5th birthday.

That's still a lot of people who, evolutionarily speaking, shouldn't be alive now.

take me for example. I was born with narrow ear canals, which fill up with gunk and get infected if not cleaned out regularly by a professional. This is a simple procedure that would have been impossible in premodern times. Even if some medieval doctor did figure out how to get in there, one mistake and my eardrum would rupture, it would get infected, and I'd die in horrible agony. In a premodern society, I would have died in infancy.

>>3297363
>no training in medieval combat styles
>hey guys I'm big I'll be your tank
>just like my dnd game lol

Good luck kid.

>>3297321
If i were lucky and teleported into the Hussite era, id try to join one of their peasant armies. Good thing is that medieval Czech is almost identical to modern one.

>>3297349
This, communication would be impossible due to changes in the language.

Also, diseases would be an even bigger issue. You would be exposed to "new" kinds of viruses or bacteria that you have no immunity for (the same way when you travel to a far away country without vaccination, but there would be no modern medicine).

Even if your immune system is strong enough you would probably bring in some modern pathogen, buffed by exposure to antibiotics which could cause another fucking plague. So you would kill half of the town you pop up, but not before getting blamed for the plague (who else they would blame but the weird foreigner with strange clothes and gadgets that look like tools of witchcraft) and get burned on the stake for cursing them or poisoning the wells or something.

People who studied applicable sciences, like engineering, chemistry, medicine, probably could prove their worth to the local lords and live a comfy life.

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>>3297375
Yeah I've read most of the New Testament and a large portion of the Old Testament. I understand the portions of the Latin mass and gregorian chants.

>>3297440
>he thinks medieval Latin or Ecclesiastical Latin are the same he learned at school

>>3297404
>engineering, chemistry, medicine,
no. If you are not into paleo-science those skills would be useless. No tools.

Assuming I don't loot to eat?

>>3297404
>rock up to local lord
>start talking in gibberish to the nobility while making strange scribbles on a piece of paper
>get killed by the manor guards for trespassing or subject to the church's trials

>IF YOU WENT TO THE MIDDLE AGES THE PEOPLE WOULD JUST FUCKING KILL YOU LOL xD THE DARK AGES AMIRITE
Just go to a peasant farm/village and start working as a farmhand.

>>3297349
My language was intelligeble with the modern variant at the time, I can probably communicate and I know latin, so what you said wouldn't apply to me

>>3297551
Someone used to a comfy office job wouldn't put up for long with the 80h workweeks, poor sanitary conditions, horrible food

>>3297321
I saw this in a recent isekai I think, if I get to keep my keitai I ought to do pretty well.

>>3297574
They actually didn't work as much as we do now, they had a lot of downtime

>>3297574
>80h workweeks
meme. Peasants in the middle ages worked far less than you do today (hours wise) and had much more time off.
>poor sanitary conditions
If there isn't any other option, then I would put up with it
>horrible food
The food wasn't as bad as you make it out to be, but again: if there wasn't any other option, then I would put up with it.

Depending on what time specifically you could probably do some real good by simply telling them that diseases like the plague and typhus are carried by rats and lice respectively.

>>3297321
If you were fat enough I wonder if you could bullshit some people into thinking you were incredibly wealthy and run from there with it.

Either way the most likely case is that you'd die relatively quickly due to a lack of resources and a general inability to communicate with others.

Would you have died later on if you cut your finger cutting, for example carrots?
Would you need to get it amputated?

>>3297598
Not if you didn't use a rusty knife like a tard

If you're old enough to have known any/many people who were alive pre WWII you'll realise that you would have a very short existence in their society, let alone a Middle Ages one.

>>3297349
>>3297401
so whats the best bet for an average anon who only speaks a handful of Latin words and would be unintelligible anyway?

head to a monastery? I know they provided food and shelter to the destitute.Would they accept someone willing to work who only speaks in tongues?

>>3297321
I would have been a trained templar so no one would dare bully me and I would remove infidels everywhere sounds pretty good

>>3297617
But without readily available stainless steel how isn't every single knife not in some level of rusting?

>>3297321
>all these people thinking they'd last in a monastery
Good luck never fapping

>>3297321
Would be killed within a few hours because "I don't need religion"

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>>3297321
>spend all day indoors
>have pale white skin
>immediately recognized as royalty
>treated like a prince
>pledge fealty to a King
>own a fiefdom
>be master of the realm
pretty well

>>3297321
>dies of easily preventable disease without modern medicine

>>3298646
>not becoming a saint thanks to your vacinnes

>invent soap
>become rich

>>3297321
I'm an applied physicist so i'm basically the guy that theoretical physicists and engineers come to when they actually need to put things together, so I would be able to bring any medieval society up to the level of pre-digital 20th century within my lifetime. The only things I'd have trouble with is pharmacological which is probably too important.

modern plumbing/hygiene, airplanes, helicopters, tubes, transistors, atomic bombs, cameras, telephones/analog electronics, firearms, cars .. i could make all of it or at least explain in detail how a group of scientists and engineers would do so. i'd be treated like a god and highly protected and treasured for my entire life by whatever country I agreed to live in and share my ideas with.

not to mention the art. i'd be able to basically copy the past several hundred years of music and visual art and be treated like some artistic savant.

this is all assuming i can actually communicate before being killed(i know german/french/italian/russian but they probably don't speak the same kind so i'd sound like some retard or completely unintelligible), don't immediately die of the black plague or killed by some bandits or army before i can construct my own defenses like bombs and such. swords and arrows wouldn't really be a problem for me as long as I wasn't caught with my pants down. they had """bombs""" back then, but they were firebombs, or basically molotov cocktails. I'd be able to easily create genuine conventional explosives that would make them too scared to even come near me. they'd think I was a god, once again.

fuck this would be really cool if it happened

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>>3298774
>attempt to bring plumbing to medieval europe
>shit harvesting guild murders you for putting them out of business
Yeah great idea mister physicist.

>>3298797
i'll blow them up no big deal. the shit harvesting guild better fuck off to another profession.

>>3298774
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Came_Early

>>3298802
>human waste is now sent down the local river
>fisherman guild can't fish downstream no more
>upstream part of river belongs to neighboring kingdom
>fisherman guild has no money and no one has fish
WOW GOOD JOB MY DUDE, WHAT YOU'LL BLOW UP THE RIVER NOW?

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>>3298881
the shit harvesting guild will rage war with the fisherman guild for access to the river.

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>>3298893
>causing wars between guilds just because you want medieval europeans to poo in the loo

>>3298918
i will not support them if they do not poop in the loop. that'd be unacceptable. i know 4chan would make fun of me after i died.
>"he invented all of this stuff and was worshiped but didn't think of a toilet and shit in the woods hahahhahah!"

>>3297598
>should I amputate a finger and create a giant, festering wound to prevent a small cut from getting infected
No you fucking mong

>>3297325
Humans can go some three weeks without food.

>>3297321
He invents the internet with Leonardo Da Vinci.

(sorry Al Gore and Bill Gates).

We would be more advanced, imagine we're living in a planet orbiting Proxima Centauri.

>>3297375
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lay_brother
Also goddamn, why is the English introduction of this article stuffed with bullshit about "historical inequality" and the "inappropriate" use of the term?

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>Didn't learn a practical skill
>Never learned Latin or Greek
>No clue about nothing that could be useful
>Too weak for extensive manual labor
>Probably a massive cultural divide on top of the language barrier

Honestly I don't think most people would last very long without any relationships with any people, even ignoring language barriers.

Assuming I'm one of the people who is going to die miserably extremely quickly, what would be the best thing to do to enjoy my last days(or maybe hours)?

>>3299184
Rape the least disgusting bitch around and then run the fuck away. Just donthat until you finally kick the bucket somehow

>>3299140
>tfw no matter the age we have shit genetics
it was over before it even started

>>3297386
>implying they wouldn't train a young man who's a head taller and a few stone heavier than everyone else
It doesn't take that long to train someone to march and use a spear. I'm not saying that they'd be knights riding into battle, but putting a pointy stick and a shield into someone's hands isn't out of the realm of possibility.

>>3298815
Thanks for this. If you have any similar recommendations I would be thankful.

>>3298774
>"not to mention the art. i'd be able to basically copy the past several hundred years of music and visual art and be treated like some artistic savant."

>go up to random villagers
>start rapping jay z or some shit about getting high

>>3298937
>poop in the loop

>>3298737
German tribes already had soap during the Roman era

>>3299518
i said music anon. i play the guitar very well so that'd be a good start, although they didn't have six stringed guitars back then so I'd have to make one. i'd just get some carpenter guys to make them for me after giving them the designs. literally another invention by me that i'd be praised for. i wouldn't even care about patents or any of that. i'd already have 5000 other things that i'd be praised for inventing.

>>3297401
>who else they would blame but the weird foreigner with strange clothes and gadgets that look like tools of witchcraft) and get burned on the stake for cursing them or poisoning the wells or something.

JAJ this would happen for sure. thes eidiots think they would become the master inventor of the time when they dont know how to make shit.

>>3297349
what about spanish ? has it changed too much since medival spanish ??
i am asuming that i would be on the place of my ancestors rather than a random place on the globe for this thought experiment

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>>3297321
Is pic supposed to be related? That's not a European sword.....

>>3297349
Cunt nothing you have said makes and sense, there are historical examples of people living in fucking trees and getting supplemented by the locals.
>teleported back to middle ages
>stumble around
>can't make sense of anything
>pass out from hunger
>peasants find you
>peasants save you
>peasants feed you
>peasants teach you
>you work on peasants farm

Literally your only threat is a biological one. You people do not understand how good hearted peoples were from this time, maybe because you don't read any books.

>>3297349
Old French is actually reasonably intelligible, at most it sounds like a weird accent.

>>3297321
The Middles Ages are almost a millennia long. Depending on the time and place, survival chances vary wildly. Early Middle Ages and early Late Middle Ages are pretty bad, while High Middle Ages are pretty comfy in Western Europe, but not in Eastern Europe.

In general, though, survival chances are decent. It certainly isn't the bleak period people like to imagine, and you shouldn't underestimate the human capacity for adaptability. Unless you're caught in an epidemic or a war, of course. Best bet for anyone is probably to walk to the nearest church, and try to communicate that you need help there, that you lost your memory. After that, it really depends on where you are. In a big city, you'll probably be on your own, but in a village you might get more support. Some guy talking in a weird way showing up out of nowhere is sure to attract some attention. Local authorities might get involved, too.

It would be possible to make penicillin or some other simple antibiotic back then, wouldn't it, if you knew how? It seems to me like that alone would make you extremely useful, assuming you could survive long enough to put the skill into practice.

>>3298452
>>>/pol/
>>>/b/
>>>/bant/
>>>/reddit/

Very shortly, because I'm a Jew. If I do live long it's either because I'd go Crypto, or move in Muslim Spain.

>>3297349
>Furthermore, they'd be familiar with vernacular written conventions now obsolete, like thorn and yogh.

It gets waaaay worse than that. Medieval scriptorial shorthand can get excessively obscure. Its not just about special characters like thorn; scribes used different abbreviations for latin phrases that we just dont use anymore.

>>3301013
>Some guy talking in a weird way showing up out of nowhere

Great, theyll think youre a gyppo.

>>3297321
European middle ages where?In our own country or a specific place?

>>3299015
>Humans

late middle age scandinavia, I would do pretty well. Can understand 90% of what people say and can most likely make some nice coin importing needed materials like wool from England or clay.

The murder rate in medieval England was estimated to be 3 times the murder rate of Detroit. Most of us would be dead in days.

>>3302373
where do you have that info from?

>>3302382
http://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/23/us/historical-study-of-homicide-and-cities-surprises-the-experts.html

>>3302386
could be one of those false reports as ive seen plenty of them.
the professor himself seems to deal with a lot of middle ages related stuff and mostly focuses on modern urban areas.
http://worldnewsdailyreport.com/australia-archaeologists-unearth-ruins-of-viking-trade-center/
this is example of a typical fake claim made to seem real.

>>3300835
>You people do not understand how good hearted peoples were from this time

lel

>maybe because you don't read any books

Perhaps you read to much high fantasy.

>>3302453
if im lucky i would injure myself outside some abbey or church and maybe the priests would help me? Ubi caritas et amor, deus ibi est. As they say

>>3302263
No gypsies in Europe before the 14th century, and even later for Western Europe. They might think you're a crazy beggar, but you'd be in at the very least decent health, you know how read and write: that would more people curious about you, or at least not dismiss you outright. And you don't have passports, or anything that might identify you as a pilgrim, or a merchant. Depending on the time and place, you might even be brought to the local lord/whoever is in charge of enforcing the law to know what the hell to do with you.

>>3302476
No need to injure yourself for that. They'd help you regardless, providing care and help to the poor and pilgrims was/is the church's job, so you can just walk inside and ask for help. You can still do that nowadays, btw, I've backpacked across Southern France and Northern/Central Italy for almost three months only staying in monasteries or presbyteries, usually doing a bit of work/attending service in exchange for meals, somewhere to sleep, and a shower.

Medievalnorwegian is pretty close to modern, except things like soft T sounds instead of hard.
I would become a playwright. Can you I shine Star Wars on the 16th century stage?

>>3302237
Don't be uncreative dude. You just find a priest and go " pater! I wish to renounce my wicked Jewish ways and turn to Christ! Save me from damnation!"
Boom. Safe.

>>3303667
>Medievalnorwegian is pretty close to modern, except things like soft T sounds instead of hard.

Ehm.... Well now...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7-JOog5Q08

>>3298815
That shit was pretty cool. I'd love more stories about people out of time

>>3303712
Well this is a particular dialect, but I can understand it well enough

>>3303766
Well you also got to remember that that text is also 500 years old, and sung by someone who lives today. Nobody really knows how it was truly pronounced, people just guess based on how Old Norse was, and how Norwegian is today.

I think you would have an easier time reading the language than listening to people speak if you were teleported back to that time.

>>3303692
I mean, yeah, but then I'd be lying to myself. I dunno, mate. Shit's hard. =[

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>>3302237
>>3303692
He'd miss out on this kind of cool hats, though. But yeah, if he ends up in one of gazillion places that banned Jews in Europe at the time, best bet is converting. People back then loved a good conversion story.

>>3303781
Even if certain innotations are different, if a native Norwegian can read it, he can probably understand it when he hears it

>>3299768
It actually did, a example of this is the original Don Quijote

>>3298642
noice

>>3303834
>if a native Norwegian can read it, he can probably understand it when he hears it

Well I am a native Norwegian, and even today there are several dialects in rural Norway that are hard as fuck to understand.

I mean, do you really think that you would understand random people who spoke like this in England 600 years ago?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0ybnLRf3gU

>>3297349
There were glasses in the middle ages. And also a 4channer would likely be better off as an inventor or scientist than a copywriter.

One 4channer could probably start the industrial revolution 800 years early with highschool science knowledge.

>all these people ITT assuming that you can't quickly find a way to communicate

Have you basement dwellers never travelled or interacted with foreigners? When you're fully immersed and have no choice but to adapt, you'll learn how to get yourself understood in no time, especially if the language you have to learn is similar to yours.

>>3299587
>people in the past were incapable of rational thought lol XD
>muh burning at the stake
>I'm a ressourcless failure of a man so everyone must be too

>>3302373
>implying detroiters only last about two weeks before dying

People seem to believe people in the past were stupid. They were as smart as we are. We just have a greater collective knowledge.

A high school student 100 years from now will think Stephen Hawking was stupid for not understanding the basic of Cold Fusion which is now taught in every science high school textbook.

>>3304072
Knowledge doesn\t exist.

Like other anons I'm assuming ill go where my ancestors are from
>normal day in some mountain village in the basque country
>tan, man of above average height and weight suddenly stumbles into the village
>he tries to speak to the locals, yet doesn't know a single word of basque
>suddenly the local priest hears about a foreigner of tanned skin and a weird tounge that resembles Spanish
>turns out it's spanish, yet another dialect
>taken to the noblemans local estate
>although hard at first the foreigner eventually is understood
>"I'm starving give me food"
> he is bathed, clothed and put to work by the local church
>one night the foreigner disapears
>in his room, strange scematics for what seems to be some sort of small,handheld cannons are found
>months later, news reaches the monastery that ottoman forces near Constantinople where absolutely decimated by some foreing man with weapons which make the heavens roar.

>wake up from dream
>wake up in southern basque country
> greeted by a peasant
>die of bubonic plague

>tfw you will never travel back in time, save the Byzantine empire and be praise as the embodiment of Ares and savior of the Roman empire

>>3303910
>4channer
Red dit detected. This shit is just like Claymore, actual "4channers" don't call themselves by any name, except maybe by board

>>3297574
>horrible food
OH YEAH NIGGUH CUZ DEY DONT HAS NO SPICES *smacks lips* WHITE PPL BAKA

>>3303904
Of course not, but that is Middle English, not Norwegian. English has changed much more dramatically than Norwegian has

I don't get why this idea that minor cuts and scrapes were death sentences has stuck around so well.

Has no one here ever had an infected cut? It's not that bad most of the time. Your immune system is actually pretty effective. It just gets hot and tender, sometimes some swelling. Life-threatening infections in minor wounds are actually pretty rare. Further, pre-modern people DID understand that wounds that were cleaned out tended to heal better than those that were left dirty.

The reason combat injuries lead to lethal infection is because your body can not deal with both the injury itself and the ensuing infection. Also combat injuries tended to be deeper or affect more important body parts. Getting an infection in your pinky finger is less life-threatening than getting an infection in your abdomen.

>>3303904
>I mean, do you really think that you would understand random people who spoke like this in England 600 years ago?
That's a really cool video.

I think I would have better luck understanding that than another non-english, modern language.

A lot of words are the same/similar. Just the pronunciation is different. I think anyone even somewhat intelligent in whatever village I was dropped off in would understand I was speaking an odd dialect of English, and would be wise enough to speak slowly and perhaps pantomime if necessary.

Would I be fluent immediately? Of course not.
Would I survive? Definitely.

>>3297321
>How long would an average 4chan basement dweller survive, if teleported to the European Middle Ages?
Very little time at all. You are a stranger who doesnt speak the language so the first people you come to will detain you if you are near their village/town. the local lord will have you enslaved, put into chains to work, imprisoned etc. depending on local conditions and thats it for you bar a miracle. no one trusts outsiders unless you are in a port or city and if you cant speak to them they will suspect you of being foreign and a danger or mad. most """"knowledge"""""" people have is based on on other things they do not know and useless without even more knowledge to make the things you need to make the thing you wanted in the first place.
The absolute best bet is to recite any latin you know over and over again, at least they may dump you on the local clergy where you have a slim chance at survival when you show you can wrtie and use numbers. if you can show 1 bit of algebra they will know you as not a peasant or low tradesman and that means you MIGHT be hoisted upon a local dignatry as a guest. All that said most of you would just cry a lot and end up in a ditch dead somewhere, your smooth skinned bp enjoyed by locals like a rare wine.

>>3305811
I wish people with only Hollywood levels of knowledge would remain silent

>>3305811
That would only be the case if you landed in medieval South America. Not even Africa during the time period were that big of assholes.

>>3298774
You guys crack me up. mechanic here, even if you managed to find someone who could understand your concepts distilled through language barriers, the material science needed to make, say a set of stainless steel silverware that didn't rust when you tried cleaning it with water, let alone a combustian engine with enough of a power/weight ratio to be able to propel itself on a traintrack wasn't there. I mean sure, stainless steel existed, as did steel of the various grades needed to make an engine in theory, but getting consistant amounts of any of those materials was exceedingly difficult because the Bessemer process didn't exist and the finery/blister/crucible processes were all time consuming and likely wouldn't end up with the type of metal you're looking for in a combustion/steam engine anyway. Aluminum was more precious than gold as the only way to gather it was by mining it native from the earth, and prior to modern refinement processes the most aluminum ever gathered in one place was actually the pinnicle of the Washington monument.

I mean sure, if you decided to make it your lifeswork and had the backing of a noble you could possibly create a primitive digital computer powered by lemon batteries that would probably become a historical curiosity, but making an automobile, or even a train would be damn near impossible without industrialized infrastructure that itself takes a lifetime to set up and requires a level of cooperation between various industries/guilds that you would be hardpressed to obtain for the sake of some dubious device that makes the clerk's job easier, or a horseless carriage that requires the burning of an exotic material in order to function. Maybe a flying machine might get peoples' attention, but again good luck designing an engine light enough to lift itself off the ground.

If I were trying to improve the medieval world, I'd start smaller. Like, instead of automobiles, rearview and side mirrors on horse carriages.

>>3299096
why? because wikipedia is run by cultural marxists

>>3307200
The #1 thing anyone could do to improve the medieval world is teach them germ theory.

>>3307629

Have fun getting burned for heresy because you've got no way to prove your claims without microscopes which you probably don't have the technical expertise to build.

>>3307651
They didn't burn everyone who said anything new for heresy. It wasn't like Warhammer 40k

What part of the bible do microbes contradict?

Maybe anon could pretend to be a mute long enough to pick up on a remedial level of Latin, then, in a new anime-training montage, train in the woods, and come back literally Guts-tier powerful. Seduce peasants with memorized anime/movie speeches--and when they come to kill him, he'll be too powerful--raise a rebellion, and slowly aim for world conquest.

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>>3297321
With my trusty trench coat and Katana, I would quickly block the path of the first knight I encounter, take him out, tip to m'lady, bed her, take over the fief, and establish my enlightened humanistic rule somewhere far from the oppressive reach of Papal Rome, except for the occasional clandestine duel with a hapless inquisitor.

All in all I'd say it wouldn't be too bad.

>>3297329
You need money for that.

>>3299768
Read el Cantar del Mio Cid or hear it on youtube in it's original medieval spanish that shit is very different from our modern spanish, althought you might understand written medieval spanish (not entirely but enough to understand a general context) but that's not enough to communicate

>>3310485
I refrain my statement, listening to some poems in XII-XV in medieval spanish I could probably understand most of it, it's just some sounds and pronunciation that it's different for example:

Ovella-Oveja
Grand-gran/grande
Dixo-dijo
Cavaillos-Caballos
Omne-hombre

so yeah if we ended up in X century onwards spain we might me able to communicate and would get the language quickly

>>3307200
>rearview and side mirrors on horse carriages.
You're trotting along at 10 mph (prolly less) pulled by animals who themselves aren't keen on colliding with anything. You can just look behind you by turning your head.

Besides. Polishing a flat enough piece of metal until you can clearly reflect images off of it is not at all easy.

assuming no bullshit like out of sync immune system killing me
>run to priest
>confess (with great linguistic difficulty) to having completely convincing memories about the future, our eras general crisis of faith, and convert to christianity on the spot since your time travel was obviously a miracle
I think laying all the cards on the table would be the best move, or people would wonder why the fuck I'm so weird and be on edge, they might even believe that I'm not mad nor lying

Also people who think peasants would burn you at the stake for being a foreigner are retarded, unless they thought you were *x nationality that just waged terribly brutal war that ravaged their lands* they would at worst kick you out of town