Some part of the world, some culture throughout history, has to be the most recidivist during a time and it’s usually the state which is closest to collapse without fully succumbing. That’s been Russia for the last century after milking wars and a few self inflicted mass tragedies for propaganda about triumph and resilience. The backwards culture should have been left behind after the Mongols invaded but they are also the right shade of sycophantic parasite to persist.

Garum always seemed equivalent to soy sauce or fish sauce from SEA. If you were a time travelling Roman, it would be entirely accurate to call soy sauce “pickled mold loaf juice”.

Jokes on you, there’s no time limit. I’ll do laundry. Eventually.

Furrier, smith, milliner; something that requires working with my hands and having a visible product to remind me where I am at in the process. Also I would be working alone because otherwise I would talk to everyone around me and get nothing done.

Also the Islamic Golden age. Imagine being the empire that spread algebra, Arabic numbers, the start of modern medicine, astronomy, and science but no one knows it came from you. Heartbreaking.