If you could pick 5 people to rebuild civilization, what would they be? (Ex. Doctor, mechanic ect.)?

Answer 1

If civilization required rebuilding, that would mean even very basic things we take for granted would no longer exist. (Look at what happened when the Roman Empire fell. They had central heating; nothing more than a room where a fire was built, and 'ducts' which channeled the hot air from the fire under the floors. Pretty simple system, but it was forgotten for over a thousand years.)

I am not sure five people *could* rebuild civilization, and if they could, they would need multiple skills. Still, since you seem to be asking what five skills would be most essential, I am listing only paired skills that would reasonably go together:

(In this order:)
Farmer (to grow food)
Blacksmith / Mechanic (to fix / make things)
Doctor / Pharmacist (to keep the people alive)
Veterinarian (to keep the animals alive)
Librarian (to find, collect, and organize the information we'd need to do all the other things we didn't have anyone skilled enough to know.)

With that list, we'd have a pretty nasty life for a while. No weavers to make fabric (and without fabric, clothes designers would be useless), no glassblowers to make bottles and other useful things, no potters, no carpenters (although perhaps one of our people might know a bit), no lumbermen, no papermakers, no printers, (and *forget* about electronics - that would require an entire infrastructure of its own to support), the list just goes on and on.

To do even a sloppy job of rebuilding civilization, you would really need more than one person (in case one got sick and died, in spite of the doctors - and remember, doctors are some of the first people to get sick when there is an outbreak of illness) with each of dozens or more of special, useful, skills, *and* you would need a lot more people, to train in those skills, and just to do the hard work that would be needed.

Rebuilding a civilization is *much* more difficult than most people think. Some science fiction novels make it appear that way; the world falls apart, and the few survivors are living pretty much like they always did within a few years. If you read history, however, that goes beyond fiction; it is pure fantasy.

Answer 2

Architect, Doctor, Scientist, Literature Expert, and a Clothing Designer

Answer 3

Doctor
Botanist
General carpenter
Farmer/rancher
Survival expert

Answer 4

most semi educated individuals, can grow seeds....so foods covered...

we need a doctor, or a medicine man, a nurse would do......
we need an educated individual to carry language/communication forward...
we need a builder....a carpenter...mason
we need a weaver..someone good with textiles

and we would need hope, in all the seriousness of rebuilding.....we would need art, music.....so we need a muse.....a bard, an artist, a magician......the jester....there is hope in laughter, joy in art, life in music.......we would need to overcome despair....even the best doctor, can't fix that.

Answer 5

sociopath, megalomaniac, recovering alcoholic, evangelist, and a blond-haired, blue-eyed girl who wants a Pony.

Or...

A virtuoso engineer, expert computer scientist, the 2 most healthy women, and the most healthy man... since I doubt the engineer or the computer guy would be.

Answer 6

Doctor with an expertise in chemistry.
Engineer
Artist/Musician
Religious authority
Mechanical laborer

Answer 7

5 of me

Answer 8

2 Farmers and 3 Women, all unrelated to each other.

Answer 9

we need a crop expert
a teacher
a medicine doctor
an engineer
a blacksmith to forge tools and metals from ores

Answer 10

Such things would be for great thinkers to believe they have the answers. I wouldn't call myself a great thinker, but I'm not stupid either and one thing is certain, ABSOLUTELY NO LAWYERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!