Post-apocalyptic TL 5/8

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I would guess that they could probably maintain fairly high TL technology level in regards to agriculture/ranching. We already have TL 8 seeds and have been breeding various food animals to be bigger and bigger. If they survive your apocolypse then then we are likely to have higher food yields compared to historical TL 5.

Secondly we could probably maintain fairly high tech levels in various softer scientific fields such as psychiatry/socialogy/economics with just the books surviving and an interest from the population.

Third in terms of medical tech, I suspect we could probably do a better job than historical TL5 in terms of disease prevention from just our better understanding of Germ theory and Sanitation.

Fourth we are probably going to get a number of knick knack techs that survive such as Blue Jeans (first invented in 1873), Hollywood Holsters rather than historical holster choices. Overall thanks to historical documentation the post apocolypse society can probably skip a significant amount of the experimentation period of tech developement cycle. Since they have teh historical documentation to go off and are simply reinventing tech rather than developing it for the first time.

Expect for this to result in less overall time spent on the experimentation period of tech developement and more on deciphering historicaly documented tech filling the various blanks in the documentation of older tech. You are probably going to see a great deal of Tech cherry picking over time by the various new TL 5+ Societies as they reimplement the "best tech choices" that their infrastructure will allow.