 Where Be Dragons?

Where be Dragons?

Why didn’t new husbandry techniques occur until 1500?

Why didn’t the romans create lateen sails?

Why was the breast wheel not invented until the industrial revolution?

Why weren’t buttons invented in Asia?

# Idea behind its time - ToA
Concept from [[Alex Tabbaroc]] via  [[Jason Crawford]] of things that could have been invented whenever 



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# Where be Dragons?
Why wasn’t D&D invented until the 1970s? [[Idea behind its time - ToA]]

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# Why didn’t new husbandry techniques occur until 1500?
It’s hard to believe that people didn’t realize that if two big cows had a baby that baby would grow up to be bigger. 

One possibility is that the scale of farming was so small that people couldn’t notice lineages. If you only ever interact with one or two cows it’s hard to notice their kid picking up their traits. And then it’s hard to see which chickens are breeding with other chickens.

Another possibility is that there was actually a cultural shift just about systematically documenting things in the world. This is suggested by [[Against the Gods]]. 

Another [[Idea behind its time - ToA]]
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[[Lever of Riches]]
            


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# Why didn’t the romans create lateen sails?
Seems like another [[Idea behind its time - ToA]]
[[Lever of Riches]]
           


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# Why was the breast wheel not invented until the industrial revolution?
Another [[Idea behind its time - ToA]]
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[[Lever of Riches]]
           


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# Why weren’t buttons invented in Asia?
- Seems like another [[Idea behind its time - ToA]]
[[Lever of Riches]]
           


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