I think I can answer the anomolis rather disparate tech question. Guilds.
We've already seen the leaving a Hidden Village means that your going to end up a nuke-nin and marked for death, minus extreme situations with much politicking and such involved. One of the major reason is that you'll probably spread around the jitsu of the village... meaning that more of the village only knowledge is now public domain, that means that village power and the number of reasons to specifically hire that village is reduced.
Guilds are the answer . Hiding the secrets of the trade is half the reason for their existence. Silversmith, blacksmith, potters, coopers, roofers, whatever are going to protect their secrets... an alchemist that reveals that to make gold ore more pure you heat it so that the gold melts off the rest of the ore (having a low melting point) could get you killed.
If mechanical tech is within a hundred years of us in limited cases, is randomly spread around it probably has one major source. Its also incredibly expensive. Expensive on purpose, like diamonds, a stone produced in limited numbers by the industry by contracts. A diamond is actually rather common as a gemstone. Cubic Zirconia is a diamond that is man made in stead of dug up.
This means that trains, trucks and the like are available, but expensive. The industrial revolution is a secret and rather localized. The idea of mass produced consumer goods isn't really available yet on a large scale.
In the 1800, Parents and families taught their kids (or paid for private tutors) to be literate before they could go to school. Illiterate kids could show up, they'd be left severely behind. Teaching the poor to read screwed up the old world order. Much like translating the bible in England to English of all things (the common tongue) screwed up the power of the Catholic Church. Mass produced books and the twin horrors of Television and the Internet have made knowledge insanely less localized. The speed knowledge is available is insane these days. Which has good and bad points... like news that gets made common knowledge before its check for facts and the religion that is Google.
Anyway, I'm guessing that one of the prime advantages of being a ninja is that your ought to read. The library is so much scribble covered kindling to the majority of the population. Merchants probably have their own written tongue and math is used as a common tongue for most people. Buying stuff without getting ripped off is too hard otherwise.
The fact I haven't seen any pop culture literature beyond the Ichi Ichi series, which is written by a master ninja for ninjas. Which means that common man now has a reason to learn to read. This means that Ichi Ichi Paradise could end up the pinnacle of ancient high art in the future.
As for the instant megalithic tree jitsu, that particular one is insanely high level. However it didn't spring forth from the head of Zeus via and axe. Instead lesser or at least slower versions are probably used in agriculture (a harvest a week means far less land is needed). Considering the random massive damage taken by the trees at genin level fights, I'd have to say that jounin are assigned forest repair duty when not busy. After wars you have a lot of people used to expending vast amounts of chakra daily, they aren't going to suddenly quit cold turkey. This duty would help wean them. Also, the build up of large amounts of useless chakra would probably make them irritable and mean (Hinata's father comes to mind... and Sasuke's kin). It'd be like forced constipation of the soul. This would also explain the whole easily traveled ninja tree ways, that have little in the way of obstacles and there doesn't appear to be any broken branch stumps anywhere. Constant Matienence.
We've already seen the leaving a Hidden Village means that your going to end up a nuke-nin and marked for death, minus extreme situations with much politicking and such involved. One of the major reason is that you'll probably spread around the jitsu of the village... meaning that more of the village only knowledge is now public domain, that means that village power and the number of reasons to specifically hire that village is reduced.
Guilds are the answer . Hiding the secrets of the trade is half the reason for their existence. Silversmith, blacksmith, potters, coopers, roofers, whatever are going to protect their secrets... an alchemist that reveals that to make gold ore more pure you heat it so that the gold melts off the rest of the ore (having a low melting point) could get you killed.
If mechanical tech is within a hundred years of us in limited cases, is randomly spread around it probably has one major source. Its also incredibly expensive. Expensive on purpose, like diamonds, a stone produced in limited numbers by the industry by contracts. A diamond is actually rather common as a gemstone. Cubic Zirconia is a diamond that is man made in stead of dug up.
This means that trains, trucks and the like are available, but expensive. The industrial revolution is a secret and rather localized. The idea of mass produced consumer goods isn't really available yet on a large scale.
In the 1800, Parents and families taught their kids (or paid for private tutors) to be literate before they could go to school. Illiterate kids could show up, they'd be left severely behind. Teaching the poor to read screwed up the old world order. Much like translating the bible in England to English of all things (the common tongue) screwed up the power of the Catholic Church. Mass produced books and the twin horrors of Television and the Internet have made knowledge insanely less localized. The speed knowledge is available is insane these days. Which has good and bad points... like news that gets made common knowledge before its check for facts and the religion that is Google.
Anyway, I'm guessing that one of the prime advantages of being a ninja is that your ought to read. The library is so much scribble covered kindling to the majority of the population. Merchants probably have their own written tongue and math is used as a common tongue for most people. Buying stuff without getting ripped off is too hard otherwise.
The fact I haven't seen any pop culture literature beyond the Ichi Ichi series, which is written by a master ninja for ninjas. Which means that common man now has a reason to learn to read. This means that Ichi Ichi Paradise could end up the pinnacle of ancient high art in the future.
As for the instant megalithic tree jitsu, that particular one is insanely high level. However it didn't spring forth from the head of Zeus via and axe. Instead lesser or at least slower versions are probably used in agriculture (a harvest a week means far less land is needed). Considering the random massive damage taken by the trees at genin level fights, I'd have to say that jounin are assigned forest repair duty when not busy. After wars you have a lot of people used to expending vast amounts of chakra daily, they aren't going to suddenly quit cold turkey. This duty would help wean them. Also, the build up of large amounts of useless chakra would probably make them irritable and mean (Hinata's father comes to mind... and Sasuke's kin). It'd be like forced constipation of the soul. This would also explain the whole easily traveled ninja tree ways, that have little in the way of obstacles and there doesn't appear to be any broken branch stumps anywhere. Constant Matienence.