Originally Posted by Nait
But that's not a nation. That family will either die out, or form a population for a small island - AND there is not enough genetic diversity! You'll have inbred island idiots who wouldn't know a coconut from riverbed rocks. You need LARGE populations for nations and civilisation - that is why there are no nations of tribes, but nations of peasants.
*bangs his head on his desk* That was an example of how quickly people can adapt, not what I'm expecting to happen. I was referring to that book, the Swiss Family Robinson or whatever. I'm just saying that if you take someone away from technology it doesn't mean that it will take them hundreds of years to learn how to breed a freaking chicken. xP
But they couldn't keep a medieval technological level. Technology requires cities and nations, which we won't have without enough people.
Livestock must be domesticated. Othervise it's not livestock. And not reliable to reproduce in captivity. It took thousands of years to get cows from aurochs, reindeer from... Other reindeer, and so forth.
And of course, edible vegetation hardly can cope with the needs of civilisation. You need lots of that vegetation, and that means domestication - domesticated plants are HUGE compared to wild species, which makes it possible to survive on them.
Gather 100 people to one area. That could take, what, a month or so? So you have 100 people and you have a leader from the past world, someone they can look to. They work together and build a town, have people spending days scouting areas and not domesticating but hunting food, American Indian style. They can breed chickens, too, that's not exactly a difficult thing to do, to be honest. Maybe some of the animals aren't that wild in the first place? And rabbits! Or some other created creature - there could be a creature that breeds faster than even rabbits. With all the nutrients you could ask for. Food all over the place! Easy. So you have the food to support 200 people because they work together in such ways. They expand over areas, making tracks and making stone walls and all that crap. Blah blah blah.
And how do you know it took thousands of years to domesticate the cow? You're going by neanderthal eras again, and assuming the big bang took place. I think a lot of people wouldn't be gunning on the big bang after this one. Just because I haven't got any set religion doesn't mean that this world wasn't created by a god/gods.
It's not the technology, because technology won't be on the minds of starving people trying to survive in the wild. Technology will disappear, and slowly grow - maybe even to the medieval levels you are supposing. It's the infrastructure. No survival without domesticates! No nations without survival. Nations are born when there are people, specialised jobs and and not anarchial tribalism. Which is what we'll have if these people are dumped into the wilderness.
Okay, when I said there won't be many people, I meant it won't be the populations of five worlds (ie, at least ten billion people) all sent over. Consider it to be millions over the world.
And finally, Nait, keep in mind that we have races from five different worlds that have been seemingly magically transferred to a new world. This thing isn't exactly supposed to be realistic by Earthly terms.
EDIT: Idea. Everyone apart from Nait can ignore this if they wish.
We are at a medieval stage of technology on this world. They still remember the old world(s). That is that. If you are Nait, assume that one year on this planet is 100 years on Earth. If you are not Nait, you probably don't give a rat's arse anyway so let's just have fun, eh?