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** Dry out seeds (lay out in sun) before packing them in air-tight containers. Add some dry charcoal as well. Otherwise mold develops.

*Acquire lots of Papyrus seeds as we pass through Egypt, so that we can plant them later for use in writing.

**But see below about how this might be a lost cause.

*Pick up a hand drill with roller bearings as we pass through Egypt (for later technology advances).

*Pick up recipe for soap in either Egypt or Babylon, for practical medical purposes.

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***Olive trees are drought-, disease-, and fire-tolerant. But they do die in temperatures below -10 C.

***They can regenerate from cold damage though.

***They also don't take well to long-continued rains (~~could be a problem in~~ Bactria's rainy season...).

***They also don't take well to long-continued rains (but even Bactria's "rainy" season isn't that rainy...).

**[[wikipedia:Cyperus_papyrus|Papyrus]]

***Not much hope for this. It's an aquatic plant, and doesn't tolerate frost.

***But we can perhaps plant anew every year, collecting seeds from harvest for next year's re-planting.

*See about transplanting some deep-rooted, drought-tolerant, and flood-tolerant trees to some non-agricultural areas, for firewood and so on.

**[[wikipedia:Pinus_brutia|Afghan Pine]], or [[wikipedia:Pinus_brutia|Eldar Pine]], is very drought-, heat-, and cold-resistant and is native to modern-day Afghanistan.

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 ** Dry out seeds (lay out in sun) before packing them in air-tight containers. Add some dry charcoal as well. Otherwise mold develops.
 *Acquire lots of Papyrus seeds as we pass through Egypt, so that we can plant them later for use in writing.
+**But see below about how this might be a lost cause.
 *Pick up a hand drill with roller bearings as we pass through Egypt (for later technology advances).
 *Pick up recipe for soap in either Egypt or Babylon, for practical medical purposes.
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 ***Olive trees are drought-, disease-, and fire-tolerant. But they do die in temperatures below -10 C.
 ***They can regenerate from cold damage though.
-***They also don't take well to long-continued rains (could be a problem in Bactria's rainy season...).
+***They also don't take well to long-continued rains (but even Bactria's "rainy" season isn't that rainy...).
 **[[wikipedia:Cyperus_papyrus|Papyrus]]
 ***Not much hope for this. It's an aquatic plant, and doesn't tolerate frost.
+***But we can perhaps plant anew every year, collecting seeds from harvest for next year's re-planting.
 *See about transplanting some deep-rooted, drought-tolerant, and flood-tolerant trees to some non-agricultural areas, for firewood and so on.
 **[[wikipedia:Pinus_brutia|Afghan Pine]], or [[wikipedia:Pinus_brutia|Eldar Pine]], is very drought-, heat-, and cold-resistant and is native to modern-day Afghanistan.