Okay, first of all, 200 years ago was 1826, so why are we looking at a pic of cave men? They already had working telegraph machines in 1826. So, no, they aren't going to be that confused by the concept of electricity.

Secondly, don't sell yourself too short. Just knowing that washing your hands prevents the spread of disease could be a big benefit.

And thirdly, don't revel in your ignorance -- go out and learn some shit! You've got the entire internet at your fingertips right now. If you don't know how electricity works, go learn how electricity works. You can do it right now. Seriously, close social media and search for "how does electricity work".

200 years isn't that long ago, but call it 2,000 years: If you go back with at least a cursory grasp of the scientific method, that might be enough to get things up and running, if not for you then for the more intelligent and scientifically-minded types around you. "Try to prove yourself wrong at every step of the process" isn't a natural impulse for most of us, but once taught and understood, it changes the game.

You could also drop a few tantalising nuggets even if you don't know what they mean:

• E=MC^2^
• Basic concept of evolution by natural selection
• Germ theory of disease
• Electromagnetism
• Lenses for microscopy and telescopy, using the same lenses to start fires with the sun
• Electrical conductivity of different materials (e.g. metal good, wool bad)
• The basic components of a battery
• Newton's first few laws
• Radio waves
• Calculus
• Periodic table of elements

Those are all things you can read about in any library, so you could do a crash course and memorise the broad strokes or write them down, or just take the books with you if that's allowed.

If it were me, however, I'd just instantly kill myself.

Strong disagree.

Put a guy back 200 years ago with the concept of things to come and let the great thinker of the time stand on the shoulders of an Everyman from today, we would be at least a hundred years ahead of where we are currently.

There were some very intelligent people back then who just didn't know the rules of the game they were playing. They had to figure out the rules so future inventors could build off of them.

Go back 200 years and say "everything is made of things from the periodic table, it has rows and columns" and you instantly revolutionize chemistry. If you know of acids and bases you're even further along. There are ways to communicate long distances without using sounds or visible light, boom twenty years later I guarantee someone will have figured it out, it's terribly obvious once you know it's possible, but why would you assume invisible communication is possible since it's so outlandish to our seemingly natural everyday rules?

The only thing you need to do is survive being proclaimed a heretic, you need to get open minded thinkers to hear you, because the closed mindedness was even more entrenched in society than it is today.

1826 sure looked primitive.

200y ago electricity was already a known thing, though not something you got home yet.

One thing you could do, however, is buy up "worthless" land around the Middle East for when oil starts being drilled

put lemon juice in shiny metal you found in cave put lot of it 5 lemons juice take shiny metal string attach to eachother make big big fire

wash hand in fire boiled river water and do surgery with washed hand and washed utensil

you know how make beer? ok now put hands and tool in beer when surgery

dirty hand cause death .

Your biggest issue with tech, even if you know how to make it, is getting the materials.

I know how electricity works, but without any technology more advanced than flint tools I'm gonna just have to go with "magic."

Spin a copper wire between 2 magnets

My only issue is turning spinning into power. I know we need spinning, and spinning is easy. Water mills are a thing and have been for ages.

That's one thing that's kinda bothers me a little bit in animes (Isekais).Like who the fuck knows exactly the chemical process on how to make everything and how every details gets done just by giving a vague description of something they only heard of.

You would at least know about penicillin, germ theory, how cells work, and about atoms. So much theory and philosophy would be skipped, for better or worse.

Same with 20000 years

if you transported me 200 years in the past, i would just go to turkey and enjoy steam powered kebab. dudes knew what was up

Maybe they would invent nothing, but at least we would get rid of the anti-vaxxx people.

I don't know. I know a lot of songs, and I'm a halfway decent singer, so I could probably do quite alright just being a traveling minstrel.

Get my hands on a lute, or some sort of stringed instrument, and figure out the difference between that and a guitar, and I'm set.

Making eletricity is easy! We just need magnets.

Now to make magnets it's the hard part. We need magic!

Where dinosaurs ?