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Question: What are the first technology required
Answer: language
Page: 35, 38
Chapter: 2, 3
Answer2: Written language
Answer3: Numbers
Answer4: Scientific method
Answer5: Calorie surplus

Question: How to teach language to your epoch
Answer: Teach to young child only
Page: 35
Chapter: 2

Question: Points of grunts and body language
Answer: draw attention to ourselves
Page: 41
Chapter: 3
Answer2: make noises or gestures expressing emotions like “fear” or “anger”
Answer3: cry

Question: Points of language not possessed by grunts and body
Answer: have ideas survive the death of their host
Page: 41
Chapter: 3
Answer2: conceive of more complex ideas than we could otherwise express
Answer3: transmit complicated sentiment with a reasonable confidence of minimal loss, corruption, or misunderstanding of intent

Question: Almost universal properties of all languages
Answer: Pronouns exist in all natural languages.
Page: 42
Chapter: 3
Section: 1
Answer2: No “thbbbth” sounds.
Answer3: All languages have vowels.
Answer4: If the language has a word for “feet,” it also has a word for “hands,” and if it has a word for “toes,” it also has a word for “fingers.”
Answer5: All languages have verbs.
Answer6: All languages have nouns.

Question: How to define meter
Answer: use the book ruler;
Page: 92
Chapter: 4
Answer2: use pinkie finger as approximation.
Answer3: if you have a kg, create a liter, it's 10cm x 10cm x 10 cm

Question: How to define second
Answer: take a 99.4cm long pendulum. It swing from one end to the other in 1 second
Page: 92
Chapter: 4

Question: How to define kg
Answer: create a 1liter box of water. It weight 1kg.
Page: 92
Chapter: 4

Question: What's wrong with planting the same plant repeatedly
Answer: it will kill the soil by taking all of its nitrogen
Page: 98
Chapter: 5
Answer2: it will allow insects based on this particular crop to grow big year after year

Question: What's wrong with planting a single kind of crop
Answer: if this crop fail, you starve;
Page: 101
Chapter: 5
Answer2: it's sad to eat a single thing

Question: How to solve soil killing by planting repeatidly ?
Answer: crop rotation
Page: 98
Chapter: 5

Question: Where do plants takes nitrogen from
Answer: insects for carnivorous plants
Page: 100
Chapter: 5
Answer2: earth (from poop and pea from animals)

Question: why to avoid human poop to add nitrogen to add nitrogen to earth
Answer: it will add human's pathogen to your food, and then infect you
Page: 102
Chapter: 5

Name: Selective breeding
Definition: find plant or animal with nice property
Page: 102
Chapter: 5
Definition2: plant/reproduce the better one(s)
Definition3: repeat

Name: chlorophyll
Definition: chemical process used by plant to extract solar energy.
Page: 102
Chapter: 5

Name: Crop rotation
Definition: planting thing in some place every other year. Doing nothing the other year and allowing animal to poop/piss on it, to add nitrogen back.
Page: 102
Chapter: 5

Name: hree-field crop-rotation
Definition: Alternate during three years. Plant oats and barley (animal food) and legumes. Next year, plant wheat and rye. Next year, animal poop
Page: 102
Chapter: 5

Name: rhizobia
Definition: bacteria adding nitrogen to soil from. Found in legume.
Page: 102
Chapter: 5

Name: four-field crop rotation
Definition: in this order wheat, turnip, barley, clover
Page: 105
Chapter: 5

Question: how to get calcium for plant
Answer: bones, crush and boil, or reacting with sulfuric acid
Page: 106
Chapter: 5
Answer2: teeth

Question: How to know whether food is poisonous
Answer: most mammals are ok, most bird too (apart sometime from flesh, skin, feater). They can eat poison and keep it in them however.;
Page: 111
Chapter: 6
Answer2: Bright color usually mean «poisonous»

Question: what the rational of bright color=poisonous ?
Answer: They don't care beeing seing, thus have other defense
Page: 114
Chapter: 6

Question: How to test whether food is edible kind of safely
Answer: dont eat anything during 8 hours before testing; test a single part, in the state you want to taste
Page: 114
Chapter: 6
Answer2: Smell. If it smell like almond, don't eat, except if its almond;
Answer3: touch kind inside your elbow or wrist and wait 15 minutes. Same thing with corner of mouth, then lip and tongue, then place on the tongue;
Answer4: chew once and don't swallow
Answer5: eat one piece and nothing for 8 hours, drink water. Then similarly with a small handfull of the food.
Answer6: it's safe, add it slowly to the diet.

Question: which is safer, cook or raw ?
Answer: Cook
Page: 114
Chapter: 6

Name: how to have germ and bacteria free water
Definition: take it from coconut.
Page: 123
Chapter: 7

Question: how to have germ and bacteria free water
Answer: take it from coconut.
Page: 123
Chapter: 7

Question: how to preserve information for long time
Answer: add it in religious prayer or hymn
Page: 142
Chapter: 7

Question: What are the most important animals first
Answer: big four legged animals such as horses to move things.
Page: 145
Chapter: 7

Question: What kind of animal do you want to domesticate
Answer: be useful to humans in some way
Page: 146
Chapter: 8
Answer2: breed in captivity
Answer3: be easily contained, or naturally stay close to humans. tolerate if not enjoy the company of both humans and other animals of its species. accept human presence, human captivity, and ideally human enlightened civilization-building leadership
Answer4: reach maturity quickly
Answer5: be calm, docile, and not flip out when panicked
Answer6: eat food that’s found near humans or that humans can easily provide

Question: What's use of Bison
Answer: Every part of the buffalo can be used: meat for eating, hides for clothing, sinews for bowstrings, hooves for glue, and bones for fertilizer
Page: 146
Chapter: 8
Context: How to invent everything

Question: What's use of Camel
Answer: good source of milk, meat, hides, and labor.
Page: 146
Chapter: 8
Answer2: burn dung for fuel.
Answer3: Two-hump camels are easy to ride: put the saddle between the humps. Wooden frame on tope of single bum
Answer4: accept saltier food than most animal

Question: What's use of Cat
Answer: killin vermin
Page: 146
Chapter: 8
Answer2: pet

Question: What's use of chickens
Answer: egg and good meat
Page: 146
Chapter: 8
Answer2: easy to feed

Question: What's use of chickens
Answer: turn grass to meat, milk
Page: 146
Chapter: 8
Answer2: plow fields and transport goods and people
Answer3: source for leather

Question: What's use of dogs
Answer: good for vermin control;
Page: 146
Chapter: 8
Answer2: good for hunting,
Answer3: herding, and livestock guarding
Answer4: food and pelts after they die

Question: What's use of goat
Answer: source of meat, wool, and hide
Page: 159
Chapter: 8
Answer2: beasts of burden
Answer3: dung is dry enough to be used as fuel
Answer4: Milk close to human milk
Answer5: downy undercoat—called “cashmere”—is terrific for sweaters

Question: What's use of honey bee
Answer: honey,
Page: 160
Chapter: 8
Answer2: wax

Question: how to find beehive
Answer: spot a foraging bee and follow her back to her hive.
Page: 160
Chapter: 8

Question: What's the point of honey
Answer: treatment for coughs and sore throats
Page: 160
Chapter: 8
Answer2: few way to sweeten food until sugar
Answer3: don't rot

Question: What's the point of wax
Answer: great for candles, seals, and waterproofing clothing
Page: 160
Chapter: 8

Question: What's the point of Horses
Answer: meat, milk, hide, hair, bone, drugs
Page: 160
Chapter: 8
Section: 9
Answer2: useful in sport, transportation, war, and labor
Answer3: Horse hair is used to make bows for stringed instruments like violins
Answer4: horse hooves can be boiled to produce glue, which has been used since at least 8000 BCE.

Question: What's the point of LLAMAS/ALPACAS
Answer: meat, milk, hides, and fiber
Page: 160
Chapter: 8
Section: 9
Answer2: labor
Answer3: only choice of pack animal in South america

Question: What's the point of Pigs
Answer: meat, hide, and, uniquely, toothbrushes
Page: 165
Chapter: 8
Section: 11

Question: What's the point of Pigeon
Answer: Most reliable long distance communication until telegraphe
Page: 165
Chapter: 8
Section: 11
Answer2: food

Question: What's the point of rappit
Answer: rapid reproduction without requiring much space/food
Page: 165
Chapter: 8
Section: 11
Answer2: low-fat

Question: What's the point of sheep
Answer: meat, wool, and milk
Page: 169
Chapter: 8
Section: 14
Answer2: leather

Question: What's the point of silkworms
Answer: silk thread
Page: 169
Chapter: 8
Section: 14

Question: What's the point of turkey
Answer: like chicken, but in america
Page: 169
Chapter: 8
Section: 14

Question: What's the point of Beaver
Answer: meat, fur
Page: 169
Chapter: 8
Section: 14
Answer2: castoreum, an anti-inflammatory, vanilla flavored

Question: What's the point of earthworms
Answer: aerate and mix soil, improve drainage, and encourage plant growth
Page: 169
Chapter: 8
Section: 14
Answer2: fish bait

Question: How to make earthworms leave the underground
Answer: tapping it rhythmically
Page: 174
Chapter: 8
Section: 18

Question: What to do before using clothes of dead people
Answer: Boil them, especially if died from lice
Page: 177
Chapter: 8
Section: 20

Question: General rule for eating corretly
Answer: Don't overeat
Page: 182
Chapter: 9
Answer2: eating plenty of fruits and vegetables, because
Answer3: they’re usually pretty good for you, even if they’re not as tasty as a delicious steak.
Answer4: eating moderate amounts of fats and oils, because they’re less good for you, even if they are literally as delicious as a delicious steak.
Answer5: eating a variety of food, because variety ensures you have access to the widest selection of vitamins and minerals, including the many micronutrients that you don’t need much of but which you do need to gobble at least occasionally.
Answer6: eating a moderate amount of salts and sugars, because they make food tasty but too much is bad for you.
Answer7: not eating too much of any one thing, because too much of anything can kill you (humans can even die from a water overdose, and we’re not using gangster-style euphemisms here: drink too much water and you can die).

Vitamin: A
Where: Liver, oranges, milk, carrots, sweet potatoes, and leafy vegetables.
Missing: Night blindness, which can lead to total blindness.

Vitamin: B1
Where: Pork, brown rice, whole grains, nuts, seeds, liver, and eggs.
Missing: Weight and appetite loss, confusion, muscle weakness, heart problems, and involuntary eye movements.

Vitamin: B2
Where: Milk, bananas, green beans, mushrooms (but the few mushrooms that are toxic can be really toxic, so be careful with those), almonds, dark chicken meat, and asparagus.
Missing: Painful red tongue; sore throat; chapped lips; oily, scaly skin rashes around your genitals; and bloodshot eyes.

Vitamin: B3
Where: Meat, fish, eggs, whole grains, and mushrooms.
Missing: The three D’s: diarrhea, dermatitis, and dementia. And by “dermatitis” we mean “your skin can discolor before peeling off.” Other symptoms include sensitivity to the sun, aggression, confusion, and hair loss.

Vitamin: B5
Where: Meat, broccoli, and avocados.
Missing: A chronic feeling of pins and needles, and/or a chronic feeling of bugs crawling under your skin.

Vitamin: B6
Where: Meat, potatoes (with skin), eggs, liver, vegetables, tree nuts (i.e., basically every nut except peanuts, which aren’t even technically nuts in the first place), and bananas.
Missing: Anemia (your blood can’t carry oxygen as well, which can make you feel confused and pass out), plus nerve damage.

Vitamin: B7
Where: (Raw) egg yolks, liver, peanuts, almonds, and leafy green vegetables.
Missing: Your hair doesn’t grow properly, your skin doesn’t grow properly, plus you can have abdominal pain, cramping, diarrhea, and nausea.

Vitamin: B9
Where: Leafy vegetables, beets, oranges, bread, cereals, lentils, and liver.
Missing: Your cells don’t divide properly anymore. This unsurprisingly causes a bunch of problems, including fatigue, rapid breathing, and light-headedness, all of which eventually leads to nerve damage, difficulty walking, depression, and/or dementia.

Vitamin: B12
Where: Meat, poultry, fish, eggs, liver, and milk. That means if you’re vegetarian your only natural sources are milk and eggs, and if you’re vegan . . . well, maybe take a glance at what happens when you don’t get enough B12 and decide given your current circumstances that you can maybe bend the rules a little?
Missing: All the symptoms of B9 deficiency listed above, plus your spinal cord can degenerate.

Vitamin: C
Where: Fresh food, including oranges and other citrus fruits in particular.
Missing: You get scurvy. There’s this whole giant footnote about it a little while back. When you get scurvy, your hair curls, you bruise easily, your wounds stop healing, your teeth get loose, your personality changes, and then you die.

Vitamin: D
Where: Fish, eggs, liver, milk, and mushrooms.
Missing: Rickets and soft bones, neither of which can be classified as “good.”

Vitamin: E
Where: Leafy green vegetables, avocados, almonds, hazelnuts, and sunflower seeds.
Missing: It’s actually pretty difficult to get a vitamin E deficiency, but if you do manage to, it causes sterility and nerve damage!

Vitamin: K
Where: Broccoli, cabbage, dark leafy green vegetables (like kale, beet greens, or spinach), egg yolks, and liver.
Missing: Red spots on the skin and/or raccoonlike bruising around the eyes.

Question: How to create fire ?
Answer: First, collect material that can burn easily: dry leaves, pine needles, the inside of barks, grasses, etc. This is your tinder, which you’ll make into a small nest-shaped pile.
Page: 188
Chapter: 10
Answer2: collect some twigs about the size of a pencil, which burns hotter and longer than tinder but doesn’t light as easily: this is your kindling.
Answer3: Then collect fuel: dead wood that you can use to keep the fire burning indefinitely.
Answer4: find two dry sticks that look like they can burn easily. Place one on the ground, find an indent in it that you can force the other stick into, and begin rotating that stick while at the same time forcing it downward. Your goal is to create enough friction that things start to burn.

Name: Tinder
Page: 188
Chapter: 10
Context: fire
French: Petit bois

Name: Twigs
Page: 188
Chapter: 10
Context: fire
French: Brindille

Name: Charcoal
Page: 188
Chapter: 10
Section: 1
French: Charbon

Question: Wood burning temperature
Answer: 850°C
Page: 188
Chapter: 10
Section: 1

Question: Charcoal burning temperature
Answer: 2700°C
Page: 188
Chapter: 10
Section: 1

Question: Why would you want charcoal
Answer: You can burn at high temperature
Page: 188
Chapter: 10
Section: 1
Answer2: Greater filter for air and water
Answer3: Allow to write

Page: 194
Implementation: Burn wood with a limited amount of oxygen, so that impurities burn, but most of wood actually don't
Section: 1
Chapter: 10
Effect: Create charcoal from wood
Name: Dry distillation

Question: How to do without dry distillation access to machinery ?
Answer: Dig a hole and start a wood fire inside it. When the wood’s burning steadily, put on some more wood (this’ll be what hopefully turns to charcoal), then add a 20cm-deep layer of leaves, followed by 20cm of soil
Page: 194
Chapter: 10
Section: 1
Answer2: More complicated technique, using big pile of wood, creating a chemney and cavity to control air

Question: How to create fuel charcol
Answer: Burning hardwood
Page: 194
Chapter: 10
Section: 1

Question: How to create charcoal for filtering water ?
Answer: Burning softwood
Page: 194
Chapter: 10
Section: 1

Name: Distillation
Page: 201
Chapter: 10
Section: 1.2
Intuition: Heat and cool something to purify or concentrate one of them.

Page: 201
Implementation: Leave your mixture of liquids out in the cold until it begins to freeze
Section: 1.2
Chapter: 10
Effect: Distillation in cold places
Name: Freezed Distillation

Question: How to remove salt from water
Answer: Distillation
Page: 201
Chapter: 10
Section: 1.2

Question: What's the point of horseshoes
Answer: Once hooves is worn down, horse can't walk. And on road, the hooves wore down
Page: 201
Chapter: 10
Section: 2

Question: How to attach horseshoes
Answer: nail it, but not too deep. Nail must remain in keratin
Page: 207
Chapter: 10
Section: 2

Name: Head yoke
Page: 207
Chapter: 10
Section: 2.2

Name: Double yoke
Page: 207
Chapter: 10
Section: 2.2

Name: Collar harness
Page: 207
Chapter: 10
Section: 2.2

Name: Plow
Page: 207
Chapter: 10
Section: 2.2
Intuition: break up topsoil

Question: Easiest preventable disease in history
Answer: Not taking enough vitamin from vegetables, in particular vitamin C
Page: 207
Chapter: 10
Section: 2.2

Question: humanity’s single greatest waste of time and energy
Answer: Not using plow to farm
Page: 223
Chapter: 10
Section: 2.3

Name: Preserved food
Definition: Food which can last more than a few days
Page: 225
Chapter: 10
Section: 2.4

Question: What to do if conserved food still decays ?
Answer: Try anothen conservation method
Page: 225
Chapter: 10
Section: 2.4

Name: Drying food
Definition: cutting your food into thin strips and exposing them to something that dries them out, like sun or wind
Page: 225
Chapter: 10
Section: 2.4
Intuition: Remove water from the food, forbidding bacteria to live
Typ: Preservation

Name: Smoking food
Definition: cutting your food into thin strips and exposing them to wood fire
Page: 225
Chapter: 10
Section: 2.4
Typ: Drying food

Name: Preservation
Definition: Drying food (smoking also)
Page: 225
Chapter: 10
Section: 2.4
Context: Food
Definition2: Pasteurization
Conjdef: Any of
Definition3: sugar/salt
Intuition: Tranforming a food into preserved food. Ensuring that bacteries can't live anymore
Definition4: Freezing
Definition5: Boiling and then canning
Definition6: pickling

Question: How to create a small freezer
Answer: Put a hollow square box in ice, in a larger oval box, in fur/straw for isolation
Page: 230
Chapter: 10
Section: 2.4
Context: Food

Question: How to preserve ice
Answer: Cut during winter, preserve a lot of them in a cave, a shaded straw-covered pit, or, if you’re feeling more ambitious, in an insulated icehouse
Page: 230
Chapter: 10
Section: 2.4
Context: Food

Name: Canning
Definition: Boiling food, while boil, put it in a can, and seal it
Page: 230
Chapter: 10
Section: 2.4
Context: Food

Name: Pressure canning
Definition: to boil at higher temperature and kill more bactery
Page: 230
Chapter: 10
Section: 2.4
Context: Food
Definition2: make the can explode
Conjdef: Boiling a can of food, in order, either

Name: brine
Page: 230
Chapter: 10
Section: 2.4
Context: Food
French: Eau salée

Name: Pickling
Definition: Submerging food in brine (the weight of salt being .8 to 1.5 times the weight of food), ensuring that food can't reach the surface, waiting a few weeks
Page: 230
Chapter: 10
Section: 2.4
Context: Food
Typ: Preservation

Name: Pasteurization
Definition: Cook a liquid, halt before boiling point, and then cool it
Page: 230
Chapter: 10
Section: 2.4
Context: Food
Typ: Preservation
Etymology: Created by Pasteur

Name: Cheese
Definition: preserved milk using vinegar
Page: 233
Chapter: 10
Section: 2.4
Definition2: different strains of Penicillium molds to decide the kind obtained

Name: Yeast
Page: 233
Chapter: 10
Section: 2.5
French: Levure

Page: 233
Implementation: Blend 2 flour and 1 water. Check for bubbles every twelve hours. Once they are some, throw half of the culture and replace with 1 flour and .5 water. Repeat ad libitum. After a week, you can use the flour you remove
Section: 2.5
Chapter: 10
Effect: Bread yeast for f
Variables: f some flour

Name: Flour
Definition: pulverized grain
Page: 233
Chapter: 10
Section: 2.5

Name: Flatbread
Page: 236
Chapter: 10
Section: 2.5
French: Galette

Page: 237
Implementation: flour, water(between 20 and 37°c), and heating
Section: 2.5
Chapter: 10
Effect: Creating flatbread

Page: 237
Implementation: flour, water (between 20 and 37°c), yeast and heating
Section: 2.5
Chapter: 10
Effect: Bread

Page: 237
Implementation: Soak grains in hot water, add yeasts, wait
Section: 2.5
Chapter: 10
Effect: Beer

Question: Most expensive commodity/spice on most of the planet most of the time
Answer: Salt
Page: 245
Chapter: 10
Section: 2.6

Name: salt deprivation
Definition: feel nauseated, get headaches, get confused, suffer short-term memory loss, irritability, fatigue, and loss of appetite, then have seizures, fall into comas, and eventually die.
Page: 245
Chapter: 10
Section: 2.6
Index: footnote

Question: Where to find salt
Answer: Eating meat
Page: 245
Chapter: 10
Section: 2.6
Answer2: Follow grass-eating animals, who already have a source of salt
Answer3: Brine evaporated (beat brine with egg white, and remove the foam beforehand to obtain better brine)
Answer4: Artificial ponds
Answer5: Mining salt deposit, there are some in a lot of place, where they used to be sea

Page: 245
Implementation: send fresh water down into the salt reserves, pump water, and take salt from it
Section: 2.6
Chapter: 10
Effect: Get salt from mine without risking miner's life
Name: Solution mining

Name: Lack of Iodine
Definition: fatigue, depression, goiters (neck swelling), and, during pregnancy, intellectual disabilities in the child.
Page: 245
Chapter: 10
Section: 2.6

Question: Where to find Iodine ?
Answer: Salt, fish, shrimp, seaweed, cow’s milk, chicken eggs, and nut
Page: 245
Chapter: 10
Section: 2.6

Name: Penicillin
Definition: One of the most effective antibiotics
Page: 249
Chapter: 10
Section: 3.1

Question: How to create penicillin
Answer: Try moles from plenty of fruit or vegetables, bread, or if necessary dirt
Answer2: Mix mole, water and beef broth in a sealed jar for a week
Answer3: Figure out which penicilin works best, and start again with those
Answer4: If possible, expose penicilin to x-ray to make it mutate

Question: How to create stethoscopes
Answer: Make a tube of paper, place it between your ear and what you want to listen to

Question: How to create earing aid
Answer: Make a tube of paper, make it into a giant trumpet-shabed tube and put it in your ear