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    Default Re: What are technologies that a time traveler could easily introduce to ancient time

    Quote Originally Posted by Arcane_Secrets View Post
    Antisepsis. If you can concentrate ethanol enough it should be potent enough.
    Building on that: distillation. Very simple distillation should be doable even with bronze vessels and water cooling.

    Thinking a bit further afield about things I know:

    If we're early enough, crop rotation. That should be easy enough to explain.

    Algebra? I mean, my high school education is a while ago, and I couldn't explain calculus to anyone (or even do much of it), but I could introduce arabic numerals and from there, a few simple things like quadratic equations or long division.
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