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Old 04-30-2014, 05:57 AM   #109
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Default Re: New Reality Seeds

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If Prime Directive is a sarcastic term, it works. The best ones would involve the chance to transform societies and promote adventure. Spaceships for Victorians or paper for ancient Rome.
Here are some ideas...

Not technology just crops. Give the Old Kingdom of Egypt bananas, plantains, yams, sweet potatoes, maize (corn), and the beans and squashes that go with it, plus the knowledge of Nixtamalization, citrus fruits, and cotton. These crops would difuse North and South. Africa would develop along similar lines to Asia and Europe, a massive change.

If the printing press were introduced durring the 12th century Renaisance, chances are that the Islamic world would have also embraced the technology and developed in radically different ways.

Deliver silkworms, mulberry bushes, and the technologies of raising silkworms and spining and weaving silk to Ancient Rome and the ecconomy of the Ancient world is completely transformed.
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