Its a neophillia thing. Plenty of interesting cultural exchange topics exist pre-600 AD. Ship them the complete works of the Greco Roman era, the Pāli Tipitak

Its a neophillia thing. Plenty of interesting cultural exchange topics exist pre-600 AD. Ship them the complete works of the Greco Roman era, the Pāli Tipitaka, the bible... About 110 years ago Oxford Press published a 50 book series of English translations called "The sacred books of the east" off the top of my head I believe all the originals predate 600 AD? We certainly wouldn't lack for discussion topics. Its interesting that no era thinks they're particularly dumb or ignorant. They didn't know many cool programming algorithms, we (in general, as a population) don't know as much euclidian geometry or stoic philosophy. I'm sure we'd have plenty to say about some topic even if the topic would change over 1400 or so years. There's also a general insistence on culture shock, which I disbelieve in. I'm not that old, and something like Plutarch isn't that much closer in age to me than to a newly graduated kid. "We" would do just fine.