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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, ano
by bprater 18y ago
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.
- time_management 18y agoWhy 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?
- robg 18y agoDidn't the ancient Chinese mine coal? Not a bad map to bring with you: surface coal deposits. Still, start global warming 500 years early?
- inklesspen 18y agoIt belonged to the nobles.
- pg 18y agoDepends 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.