• ShimitarA
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    7 hours ago

    Why?

    People had less technology but where not less smart than today. If all, they where used to be smarter than us actually because they had less tech.

    Its just paper towels, that pull out one after the other with a stupid fold trick. Anybody even 600y ago would spot that after a brief looking at it.

    No, they would probably be curious about the paper itself, but that would be it.

    The fact that medieval times where “dark” its a 19th century invented lie. Actually, it’s one of the most vibrant and brilliant times of all ages, where economy thrived and people grow was substantial (until 14th century climate changes and pestilences), low population had many advantages and drawbacks. Old roman technology kind of disappeared but the society overall was far from “dark” at all.

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    It depends on place & time & audience. Most places weren’t into witches thing and educated people would recognize it as a new material not something magical.

    You would be considered a spy for appearing out of nowhere while not talking the language, probably.

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    15 hours ago

    I’m more intrigued as to why, out of all things you could pick to bring back to medieval times should you have the opportunity, why would you pick a Kleenex box

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      14 hours ago

      If you took Mendleevs periodic table of elements back, i reckon you’d probably be closer to a witch than anyone they’d burned before. You might be able to explain some of the colours of the flames though, at least until your mouth was burned beyond usefulness.

      Your best bet i reckon , some tungsten carbide tooling - get yourself in with the Masons, they’re the socially acceptable branch of witchcraft. ( a bit like today’s rich paedo vs poor paedo).

      There’s a lot of money and kudos in making churches that despoil the face of jesus’s humility.