• SineNomineAnonymous@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Just waltz into the nearest copper mine you happen to have teleported next to and scream like a mad man you need to make one of those rocks into a wire somehow and hope they don’t skin you alive (they also don’t understand English and you only know how to conjugate the verb to be in Latin because you slept during all your classes thinking you’d never need Latin - they speak Aramaic anyway but who can tell the difference, it just old sounding words).

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      1 year ago

      Bring a live translation device, and program it with whatever the expected language is. That alone would be magic to them. And you don;t need to go to a copper mine, there were markets for processed copper. Pulling it into wire is just a case of roughly forming it into a cylinder, then pulling that cylinder through successively smaller holes. A local smith could help you with that.

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        1 year ago

        What do you think copper ore looks like? What tools would you use?

        Ancient mining was a punishment, generally a death sentence. It’s hard work often overseen by a slave master.

        Copper ore isn’t concentrated copper either a lot of ore goes into a little copper. There’s a reason only the really wealthy had copper items.