If you were sent back to the roman era and could only bring a backpack of goods. What would you bring?

  • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    There’s a legend that the Roman Emperor Tiberius executed the inventor of flexible glass.

    After the inventor swore that he was the only man alive who knew the manufacturing technique, Tiberius had the man beheaded. He feared that the glass would devalue gold and silver, since the material might be more valuable.

    So y’all better watch out with any plastic…

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      9 months ago

      If we lived in a world where plastic didnt exist, and some body brought it in. The closest approximation of articulating clear plastic would be flexible glass.