If you could go back in time and do, or bring, one thing to mess up the timeline what would it be?
If you could go back in time and do, or bring, one thing to mess up the timeline what would it be?
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A highschool physics book translated in ancient Greek/linear B to mass copy and distribute to everyone. Maybe it'll give the advantage to stop the Bronze Age Collapse.
I think hygiene and modern concepts of medicine and transmittable diseases would more likely prevent that collapse
@JeffKerman1999 bring some plans for the printing press and some plans to mass produce paper too. Back in the ancient times one sheet of paper was about $30 in todays money. A whole book would be the equivalant of tens of thousands of dollars.
Without digisation possibilities, limited oil usage, and an ever-increasing demand for paraphanalia, there will be no trees left.