If you could give your ancestors 100$ of tools what would you gift?

Perhaps some pennecillin and the recipe to make more? Antibiotics are, IMHO, one of mankind's greatest achievements.
 
the penicillin would be nice.

i couldn't guess how many times I've been to some primitive gathering where someone didn't say something to the effect of, "i would have liked/should have been born 100/200/1,000/10,000 years ago." for me it might be fun to visit, but i like being alive today. antibiotics are a life and limb saver, literally.

not sure there's anything i could give my ancestors 3000 years ago that would change a lot, maybe a knowledge of germs and a book on the history of the world for the last 3000 years, not sure how long it would take to teach one of them to read it tho. maybe a few recipes or formulas, black powder or nitro.

i don't think a modern knife would change anything unless you provided the knowledge to make it also.
 
I'd buy Bic lighters, modern hybrid seeds, 2 stainless Moras and a Fiskars ax.
 
I wouldn't give them anything. Interacting with them would cause an offshoot of the alpha timeline--either that or whatever I gave them would make no difference since it would be fulfilling a stable time loop.
 
A book with all the winning powerball numbers and instructions to leave this book to his great great grandson, me.
 
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