Since America is bringing back kings what other kind of stuff is on your medieval wishlist?

Trebuchets - the superior siege engine. (Disclaimer: probably not medieval)

Nah you’re spot on there. Trebuchets are absolutely mediaeval.

Invented in ancient China.

… During the medieval period…

I think when most people talk about trebuchets, they more specifically mean a counterweight trebuchet, which is first concretely attributed to the Ayyubids in the 12th century.

Guess that makes me king of my own domain! 😆

Receiving land for farting good.

Sorcery, alchemy, soothsaying, baby. Come one come all I’ll cure what ails you. I’ll summon portals and turn lead into #gold.

Or maybe the town crier. Hear ye, hear ye, elon musk hast tweeted about his balls.

To be fair, quacks that claim to be able to do magical stuff are still around, some do quite well well for themselves even

Guillotines for kings

That wasn’t really a thing in medieval times. I’m afraid an axe will have to do.

It was an instrument used by the burghers in bringing about the end of European feudal lordship, replacing the feudal mode of production with the capitalist one.

Of course! It’s the superior siege engine.

Imagine using this for execution

First used in ancient China around IV century BC.
We can get tripantium though, advanced evolution of it invented in XIII century France.

It’s okay, we’re getting rid of history lessons too!

This might fit in mediaeval times, with the earliest possible recorded use in the 13th century, but it’s certainly not well-known until the early modern period and most famous right on the border between early and late modern.

y’all qaeda had those on Jan6. They can have 'em.

Samurai sword. But, probably they all have those as well.

And the billionaires will be the first to try it out!

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