If you had foreknowledge?

Question

If you had foreknowledge... that you would be one of a few post-cosmocataclysmic survivors on Earth as a result of an intruding and passing star system that catapults all of Humankind back to a "Neobarbaric State" where all of our current global technoculture is entirely wiped away without a trace... what 5 items would you take with you into the "New Earth Age"?

1.) ?

2.) ?

3.) ?

4.) ?

5.) ?

Answer 1

water purrification kit
pocket knife
compass
flint
army survival manual

Answer 2

1. water (I am not sure if you consider than an "item")
2. clothing
3. writing material (to record "history)
4. wheel (useful for practically every mechanical function)
5. A copy of the vedas

Answer 3

1. A book on farming
2. A library of books encompassing all human knowledge and technolog (science, philosophy, psychology, architecture, mechanics, electricity, city planning, government)
3. A group of as many people as I could save, chosen specifically for their ability to contribute to our survival
4. A stable horse for transportation
5. A store of food for people and horses

(You didn't say it had to be things I could carry on my person)

Answer 4

1. Magnesium/Iron fire starter
2. 8" Steel knife
3. Axe/hammer
4. Bow/Arrow
5. Agriculture book

Everything else can be made. Religion and philosophy don't reside in books or tools.

Answer 5

1 my library.
2 my workshop
3 Forty tons of copper
4 eighty tons of iron
5 90 families of each different ethnic groups.

Answer 6

The Pussycat Dolls

Answer 7

my children
my parents
a boyfriend, which I'd find one fast
some other children in order to repopulate with when the children grow up
plants and seeds
a gun

Answer 8

1. as many clothes as I could

2. as much medication as I could

3. sleeping bag

4. my Bible

5. my whole family

Answer 9

Absolutely nothing.

I would survive until I could not.