20 Things People Would Time Travel and Show to a Medieval Peasant

‘A clear plastic ziploc bag’
20 Things People Would Time Travel and Show to a Medieval Peasant

Based on internet discussion, you’d think that the entire purpose of time travel would be to show off the contents of your pockets and see how many people faint. I come from a less selfish, actionable time, where everyone’s first priority was to find and kill a young Hitler. This new generation doesn’t want to work anymore, they just want adoration!

Nevertheless, the constant discussion of what you might unveil to the first peasant you see in another time continues. It’s the perfect kind of half-intelligent, half-meaningless conversation that bar hangs and internet threads thrive on. So, of course, Reddit has discussed it more than once, at length. 

The following are some of their best ideas on what first to proffer a frightened peasant of the past.

63crabby y.1y ago A clear plastic ziplock bag
RoadWearyDog . 1y ago A lighter
 . 1y ago A spice rack.
weluckyfew 1y ago | remember an article about first contact with an isolated tribe years ago. They weren't al that impressed by learning that people had gone to the moon. But a chainsaw? They were amazed.
1y ago A kick flip on my skateboard.
catopixel 1y ago Imagine showing them a bicycle
 . 1y ago Monty Python and the Holy Grail
ACheetahSpot . 1y ago Tampons. A medieval woman would be psyched.
sylfeden . 1y ago A zipper. It is something understandeble which does not look like the illegal arts. It is also neat and harmless. I would be likely to have one on me somewhere. perfect thing to show that peasant.
UnknownEricKun . 1y ago Hydraulics, Turbine Generation, the process to produce a lightbulb, concrete, suspension, and rebar. We engineering up in this bitch.
BronzeAgeTea . 1y ago The first 5 seasons of Game of Thrones
darkest_irish_lass . ly ago A picture of the Earth, from space.
GrowFreeFood . 1y ago Glasses. Otherwise they probably won't be able to see the other stuff.
morninglory118 . 1y ago Inside plumbing and electricity. | think they would be amazed with a washing machine that requires both.
HAPPY BUN THERBY INTORICATED cutearmy . y ago - - - Take them to Costco.
TheAres1999 . 1y ago Honesty, I think | would explain the basics of germs. Soap is ancient, and is pretty easy to make. After that, CPR. Bloodletting, and leeches just make things worse. Just a few concepts about medicine could change their lives.
reeherj . 1y ago Penicillin - producable with low tech, game changer for medieval society.
MoonRoover . 1y ago monster energy or them brain licker sweets, i reckon 1 would wipe out at lesst 6 peasants
sofiaspicehead. 1y ago A thermonuclear weapons test. I'm just sadistically curious to see what they would think of it. Especially if they know it's made by humans
MontCoDubV 1y ago Edited 1y ago A grocery store. Amazing new technologies are cool, but without the context to understand a lot of how it works, I think they'd chalk it up to magic or something. But they'd know what food is and how difficult it is to grow and produce, probably even better than we do considering they've spent their whole life growing food. They'd understand how incredibly complex it is to produce the quantities and varieties of food in a grocery store. Then I'd start explaining to them how much each of the items cost in terms of

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