In rough order of addition to the corpus of knowledge:
Basic survival skills (e.g. navigation).
Edit: Basic agriculture (e.g. animal husbandry, crop cultivation).
Calculus.
Classical mechanics.
Basic chemistry.
Basic medicine.
Basic political science.
Basic sanitation!
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