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Re:Survival tips if you find yourself in the Middle Ages? by bprater on Saturday January 03, 2009 @02:45PM (#418602)
One of the commentors at Kotte's mentions that you could sell boiled water as "de-sprited water", good for all menner of medical procedures.

Unfortunately, another commentor recognized that firewood would be difficult to access, and cow poo doesn't fire hot enough.

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Re:Survival tips if you find yourself in the Middle Ages? by time_management on Saturday January 03, 2009 @02:54PM (#418612)
Why would firewood be difficult to find? I could be wrong, but I don't think the European deforestation had set in yet, at that time. Is the wood in most European forests not of sufficient quality?
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Re:Survival tips if you find yourself in the Middle Ages? by inklesspen on Saturday January 03, 2009 @04:13PM (#418675)
It belonged to the nobles.
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Re:Survival tips if you find yourself in the Middle Ages? by pg on Saturday January 03, 2009 @10:43PM (#418958)
Depends where you were. In feudalized, agricultural bits of Europe, everything did, at least nominally. But especially in 800 there would have been large expanses of uncultivated and mostly depopulated forest.
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Re:Survival tips if you find yourself in the Middle Ages? by robg on Saturday January 03, 2009 @03:32PM (#418651)
Didn't the ancient Chinese mine coal? Not a bad map to bring with you: surface coal deposits. Still, start global warming 500 years early?
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