Questions about Alternate Worldline Design.

[Ashtagon]

Anything that I did not specifically comment on shoudl be okay.


Glass working

You'd be looking at very crude glass only. Certainly not modern sheet glass, or even "blown" glass.

Ship building

Rafts (essentially a row of stripped logs lashed together), yes. Galleys and longboats used metal nails to hold them together. I doubt wooden pins would provide enough structural integrity.

Gunpowder rockets
Three crop rotation
Horse collars
Wooden legs

Cauterising a wound cleanly and in a near-sterile fashion requires a metal cauterising implement. You could make the wooden leg, but you wouldn't be able to perform the amputation and reliably expect a recovery sufficient to justify making the leg.

Anatomy
Natural Rubber
Three-field rotation
Moldboard plow
Specialized breed horses
Distillation
Black powder
Various mathematics
Monasticism
Concrete
Arches
Phalanx warfare
Various kinds of ships

rafts only, really (see above)

Multiethnic empires
Philosophy
Wheeled vehicles
Writing
Written law
Long distance trade and diplomacy
Large scale stone architecture
Agriculture and irrigation
I'm pretty sure wooden water and windmills are possible.

[Sindri]

You are in no way limited to rafts. Metal nails didn't start being used until TL 3 and it's quite possibly to build something that looks like a boat without them. Even without that war canoes and hide boats work instead of rafts.

I don't see why you couldn't make good glass with some work.

If you must cauterize why wouldn't glass work?

[Ashtagon]

Originally Posted by Sindri

You are in no way limited to rafts. Metal nails didn't start being used until TL 3 and it's quite possibly to build something that looks like a boat without them. Even without that war canoes and hide boats work instead of rafts.

Okay, fair point on the canoes. And I suppose you could use wooden pegs instead of metal nails, although the end result probably won't be anything like as sturdy in a storm.

I don't see why you couldn't make good glass with some work.

If you must cauterize why wouldn't glass work?

Hmm, let's see. The earliest "mould" techniques could be used to make a long thin implement, or even just a working "head" and a longish spur. The spur can then be held in a purpose-built wooden grip. So I guess yes, you can have a cauterising tool with TL1 glass techniques.

[David Johnston2]

Originally Posted by Ashtagon

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I'm pretty sure wooden water and windmills are possible.

Well if you build the mills, you can have the economic base to call it TL 3.

[Ashtagon]

Originally Posted by David Johnston2

Well if you build the mills, you can have the economic base to call it TL 3.

Both water and wind mills were around by the 1st century BC.

[David Johnston2]

Originally Posted by Ashtagon

Both water and wind mills were around by the 1st century BC.

Yes technologies often predate the point at which they become essential and mature.

[cptbutton]

Originally Posted by Sindri

You are in no way limited to rafts. Metal nails didn't start being used until TL 3 and it's quite possibly to build something that looks like a boat without them. Even without that war canoes and hide boats work instead of rafts.

I know there are boats made out of big bundles of reeds. Well, I "know" because Thor Heyderdal tried to use one to cross the Atlantic, but he was basing them off of real-world reed boats, I think.

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by Ashtagon

Both water and wind mills were around by the 1st century BC.

Which is TL2. Well into the Iron Age. Nothing to do with cutting large pieces of stone and wood without metal tools.