A ton of medicine and tampons, a Latin dictionary, my thermos bottle, some valuables to sell, etc.
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I'd fill the entire backpack with antibiotics, and vaccines for TB, Polio, and Smallpox.
And don't forget the condoms, Mr. I'm my own great-great-great-great...-great grandfather!
He did do the nasty in the pasty
A sports almanac would be all I need
The question that must be answered first is: Do I stay where I am or do I come out somewhere else?
Right, I'm in Australia, I'd be boned
I mean, still people there, and the tech and stuff would be helpful even if any translation materials wouldn't be relevant anymore
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Do I have to go? They didn’t even have A/C back then :/
For rich people there were passive air cooling systems available. And if you were truly wealthy you could have blocks of ice shipped to you
https://blogs.getty.edu/iris/how-ancient-romans-kept-their-cool/
For rich people there were passive air cooling systems available
Bro for rich people there were active air cooling systems.
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Spices, all knowledge I can carry as microfiche tapes, magnifying glass, a domesticated strain of penicillin, and seeds of modern crops.
I will be able to talk to at least some of their merchants for, ahem, reasons. From then on I have at least some chance of survival.
An Uzi, lots of ammo, some gold, and instructions on how to make steel, precision lathes and mills, lasers, silicone, computer chips, computers, nuclear reactors, internal combustion engines, rifles, the complete works of Sir Isaac Newton, Einstein, Hawkins, and everyone else, translated into Latin, and a bunch of other shit. I'm going to get into Caesar's favor and propel humanity forward 2000 years. Long live Rome!
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Tablets with a shitload of how to build books on it, several small solar chargers and USB cables.
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Maps. Lots of laminated maps of North Africa and the Middle East. Every time I run low on silver pennies to pay my palm frond air conditioner, I sell one more map.
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A gun and plenty of ammo. Don't need anything else to be Caesar.
Speaking of Caesar, I think you vastly overestimate how useful a gun is against a bunch of determined guys with knives.
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Sent back in time, but at the same place as I am now?
How large is the time travel device, does it fit into a backpack?
Now I want to rewatch Primer.
Every time I rewatch Primer, I go in thinking, "This is going to be the time I fully understand this movie!" Then, half way through, I'm thinking "What was so complicated about this? This isn't bad at all." Then I get to the last 20 minutes and I remember.
Then I go watch a 'Primer Explained' video that's almost as long as the movie itself, am satisfied for a while, and then some time in the future the cycle repeats itself.
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Guns.
"Y'all don't need to stab Julius. I got you. And you, too, Brutus."
Without reading other answers, that certainly makes more sense than mine, I would take a cake. Like the best cake i ever ate in my life and eat it all immediately after being sent in Roman era. Because if I'm getting fucked at least let's enjoy a last meal and nothing else i could take would matter. Guns, medicines,..? It would all run out anyway and it wouldn't make me king of something.
Edit: and also a bottle of good wine because Roman win tasted like vinegar.
This guy really loves cake
Enough gold valuables to cover my funeral expenses since our bodies aren't capable of handling the bacteria in the water and food back then and we'd be dead in a week.
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Antibiotics, and tea