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What are some practical things that children know today that adults didn't know hundreds of years ago?
I'm talking about things like germs, magnifying glasses, how electricity works - what are some things that any middle school child knows that would baffle an adult in the twelfth century?
I'm talking about things that are immediately relevant to improving lives. Yes, children know about cars, but how would that knowledge help if people knew THEN. I'm talking about washing your hands so doctors don't infect patients - believe it or not they didn't always know about that.
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- Donald BLv 77 years agoFavorite Answer
There are so many that it is hard to list them: cars, computers, phones, elevators, escalators, airplanes etc. However there were magnifying glasses in the 12th century and I doubt that most children know how electricity really works.