So this idea I created in broad strokes when I was high (of course...) and would ask of you to contribute to it – to have us imagine how human civilization would have developed if a primitive tribe received 'Wheel of Time'.
So this is the scenario:
A person (we will call him tge Reader) who knows English travels back in time with many, many copies of ALL 15 books with him. The Reader comes to a tribe/society (we will imagine one in Europe) on the brink of agricultural revolution. He spends his entire remaining life with this tribe, teaching them English and writing and sharing the books with them, along with any knowledge he posseses of the modern world. The Reader has brought all these many copies of the books in containable, safe boxes and suitcases that can survive many more generations if guarded properly.
He spends decades with them and then dies. This tribe remains with many copies of the books and with at least dozens, if not hundreds of people who know the English language.
What happens to this tribe? How does their technology develop? How does their art and storytelling develop? Their religion, philosophy and morality? How does their existence affect the rest of the world?
A few key facts to remember:
1. Except time-travel, there is no supernatural element here. The channeling does not exist, and the world (as far as we know, unless we are wrong🤔) is not cyclical. These people simply receive the books as they are and knowledge of English.
2. This happens in regards to the tribe that received the books. The further away geographically a human society exist from this tribe, their history remains untouched (e.g. Americas, unless the discovery of the books somehow pushes to become conquerors and colonizers much sooner than our calendar's counterpart of 1492).
3. But also, the closer it is, more it is affected. I imagine Greek or Roman history could be fundamentally different.
4. The books describe a society at a late medieval/early Renaissance level. Many, many objects described in it would be revolutionary from the point of view of this tribe.
5. It also describes moral, philosophical and religious concepts that would be far more complex.
Do have (educated, of course) fun with this, give any considerations you have, serious or funny!