Would you have survived 200 years ago?

calcolindo
calcolindo Posts: 10 Member
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If you were to suddenly find yourself transported back in time approximately 200 years what skill (that you currently possess) would be most useful? What skill are you lacking that could potentially cause your demise? What one item do you hope you have with you?
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  • WorkoutJunkie1
    WorkoutJunkie1 Posts: 183
    No, I definitely wouldn't survive 200 years ago. All my skills are related to technology. I don't know if I can live without my computer, internet, cell phone, car, and money.
  • ilfaith
    ilfaith Posts: 16,769 Member
    200 years ago, if I hadn't died in childbirth by this point, I would probably not have a tooth left in my mouth. Very thankful for modern obstetrics and dentistry.
  • Muscles_and_lipstick
    Muscles_and_lipstick Posts: 592 Member
    I wouldn't just survive, I would thrive!
  • FabulousFantasticFifty
    FabulousFantasticFifty Posts: 195,832 Member
    Totally! I'm not into tech stuff, I've lived without water, heat and electricity through several home renovations and I am a pretty resilient and tough Woman! :happy:
  • forkofpower
    forkofpower Posts: 171 Member
    Would depend on whether I was born into money.
  • MissMCassidy
    MissMCassidy Posts: 445
    No. Without modern medicine I would have died during my pregnancy with my son and if I survived that there would be no chance I could have survived the complications of my daughter birth. Besides an unequal marriage would literally be hell for me, I'm too independent.
  • Leonidas_meets_Spartacus
    Leonidas_meets_Spartacus Posts: 6,198 Member
    Sure. Humans are smart and adaptable,
  • sentaruu
    sentaruu Posts: 2,206 Member
    200 years ago, if I hadn't died in childbirth by this point, I would probably not have a tooth left in my mouth. Very thankful for modern obstetrics and dentistry.

    How YOU doin?
  • Tornadoes_R_Fun
    Tornadoes_R_Fun Posts: 41
    being a white male gives me a great advantage. id start making one scientific discover after another. id just have to be careful i didnt run afoul of all those crazy religious organizations.

    i feel bad for all the females and non whites who get transported back 200 years in America. much more difficult road for them.
  • machinistgoalie
    machinistgoalie Posts: 17
    Yes.
  • The_Aly_Wei
    The_Aly_Wei Posts: 844 Member
    Without obvious medical woes, i don't think it would be all that difficult.
  • BowHunter1967
    BowHunter1967 Posts: 56 Member
    Survive? I think thrive would be a better word. Yes!
  • SunshineKisses_2012
    SunshineKisses_2012 Posts: 471 Member
    Yup! I totally would survive! I'd make a damned good housewife - I cook, I have the ability to clean, raise a kid, and quilt. I'd just run the village. :happy:
  • Wilhellmina
    Wilhellmina Posts: 757 Member
    Probably so, next to the computer I am pretty much a technophobe, No idea what WIFI, IPOD, IPAD is and the only time I got blue tooth is when I ate blueberries. I prefer to do most by hand and learned to live life in a simple way. Will not be easy of course, but manageable...
  • ljmorgi
    ljmorgi Posts: 264 Member
    Assuming I'd have survived my early birth, I'd have died of renal failure by 25.

    --but all that aside, I can knit and cook... and I'm old enough to remember life before the Internet. :D
  • patrickblo13
    patrickblo13 Posts: 831 Member
    Without a doubt
  • jouttie
    jouttie Posts: 109 Member
    Heavens, no.What would I do all day long without MFP to post on?
  • TheRoadDog
    TheRoadDog Posts: 11,788 Member
    I would have ruled.
  • Swaggs51
    Swaggs51 Posts: 716 Member
    I think with my past in small amounts of farming and outdoors living, yes
  • EmilyJackCO
    EmilyJackCO Posts: 621 Member
    If you were to suddenly find yourself transported back in time approximately 200 years what skill (that you currently possess) would be most useful? What skill are you lacking that could potentially cause your demise? What one item do you hope you have with you?

    With my career, I might well be screwed. BUT, I am a crack shot, I can grow a garden like weeds, and I can cook like a madwoman. So I would be ok in the end...
  • ShellyBell999
    ShellyBell999 Posts: 1,482 Member
    With a couple of good muskets and a strong horse

    The wild west awaited adventurers like me!
  • MelsAuntie
    MelsAuntie Posts: 2,833 Member
    Yes, I'm a farmer, I know horses and how to grow food, raise and butcher meat animals and poultry, how to weave, various other skills.
  • assthetik
    assthetik Posts: 3,639 Member
    I could have survived 189 years ago from today, not so sure about 200

    you see i need noodz on a daily basis and it wasnt untill 1825 that the first actual photograph was taken
  • Badger_Girl99
    Badger_Girl99 Posts: 2,220 Member
    Hell no. And I'm not ashamed to admit it.
  • Reneesjourney2bfit
    Reneesjourney2bfit Posts: 32 Member
    W/O modern medicine I would have been dead by 25. But, just that slightest chance I lived, I would probably be a teacher..inventor ..Mother, homemaker...I'm always coming up w/ things I think would work.
  • dswolverine
    dswolverine Posts: 246 Member
    medically- probably...absent any smallpox or other outbreaks impacting my health. However as a woman, I certainly would not have been able to attend law school (or, I guess back then it would be an apprenticeship) so my skills would be rather limited. So would I have survived? Probably..... but would i WANT to go back then? Hell no.
  • Need2Exerc1se
    Need2Exerc1se Posts: 13,575 Member
    Yeah, I think I would. I know how to hunt and raise food, though I suppose at that time I'd just have to be attractive enough to find a man to do that for me.

    Unless I had to wear a corset. Then maybe I would not survive.
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  • independant2406
    independant2406 Posts: 447 Member
    Its 50/50.

    Pros:
    I can build a fire from scratch
    I can ride horses
    I can sew (well enough anyway)
    I know how to grow food

    Cons:
    I could never kill an animal or butcher a dead one even if someone else killed it. If meat doesn't come in a well lit deli case wrapped in plastic I won't touch it.
    My immune system sucks - I would either die from, or become deaf from, constant childhood ear infections. Antibiotics are good.
    I might have died from a ruptured appendix at age 17. This is a subject of debate...appendectomy's were being performed 200 years ago but not by every doctor and surgery was super risky.
  • JenAndSome
    JenAndSome Posts: 1,893 Member
    I am pretty resilient. I can hunt, garden, cook and build things. I don't need constant technological entertainment. I guess it mostly depends on what class I would be fortunate enough to be born into. I tend to be pretty feisty which isn't always appreciated. Some man would probably have tried to beat me to death for not knowing my place.

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