How to Invent Everything

Rebuild All of Civilization

English language

Published Jan. 15, 2018 by Ebury Publishing.

ISBN:
978-0-7535-5255-1
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Having gone back in time, now create a civilization so you can rebuild your time machine, and repeat. :-)

4 stars

A fun book that uses the premise of a time traveller stranded in the past and having to make the best of things by starting off humanity on the path of civilization. The means of doing this is by bypassing the trial and errors that humanity went through and going straight to the solutions needed to set up a working modern civilization.

The book starts off with tips for the stranded time traveller to find out where and when he might be. Assuming the traveller is lucky and ends up in a certain time period where modern man was around, but civilization hasn't been established yet, the book goes on with the basis of setting up a civilization, namely getting a spoken and written language, a 'rational' system of numbers and establishing the scientific method.

Farming is then introduced so that people's basis calorie needs are satisfied and can devote …