How ok would you be if teleported right now into a field in Peru in the 1300s with... (see description)?

[nesc@lemmy.cafe]

Why would they start sacrificing people out of blue?

[daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sacrifice_in_pre-Columbian_cultures

[cepelinas@sopuli.xyz]

A) Probably dead of heat or dead as I couldn't communicate with anyone
B) I would have a translator and some clothes, books ,pen but nothing that useful
C) I have a way to charge my devices and have the resources to become a magician.

[nesc@lemmy.cafe]

Looks like all cultures that lived in territories of modern Peru only sacrificed children, so question stands.

[deathsembrace@lemm.ee]

Dead you introduce diseases and they introduce diseases from each other and you can't give them immunity. Almost like time travel is just 1/4 of time travel

[daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Maybe time travel makes the traveller look like a children once it arrives.

[throwawaypermanente@sh.itjust.works]

Aléjate de mí con eso

[tinks@lemmy.world]

A) Completely fucked. Likely dead within days.

B) Less fucked than most I imagine. I do a lot of hiking (multiple times a week) and carry the 10 essentials in my bag, including a water filter. Food would be the biggest issue as I typically only have one meal and some snacks in my bag. I think it's doable though.

C) I think I'd be fine. I have enough food to last for months if I ration it and the knowledge, seeds and tools to grow a pretty robust heirloom garden. I also have water filtration and backups, as well as tents for shelter, solar rechargeable batteries for light at least until the panels and batteries degrade, and hand tools to build a more robust shelter. If the contents of my whole house came though the difficulty would be feeding my dog and cat, so we'd have to quickly start working on figuring out how to get meat regularly. I'd have about 2 months of food for them, but that would go quick. I am not readily equipped for hunting so I'd have to cobble together some snares. I have Wikipedia downloaded to an old Kindle and that would probably help in that department. I think in this scenario I'd be fine until disease got me. I have emergency antibiotics in my house though so I could at least survive a couple rounds of bacterial diseases.

[elaine@lemm.ee]

A) Play up my auspicious naked arrival as supernatural and attempt to live as the wisest person in the area. I’ll speak in Spanglish and mystify them!

B) The jig is up, I’m wearing a neon shirt so anyone in the area will spot me and wonder wtf I am doing staring at a little thing in my hand. I’d do the best a pocha can to speak the two or three words of Quechua I learned on vacation, then attempt to make their lives better, and educate them to the best of my abilities.

C) My partner and cats are coming too! Same as above but with the benefit of lots of science, tech, and medical books. I’d be so much happier to have my partner, cats, and my own hovel to retreat to.

[botsruinedeverything@lemmy.world]

Regardless of how long you survive, your body both living and dead would be the single most potent bioweapon on earth.