If you could travel back in time what era would you visit and why?

Question

Would you try and change the future or quietly slink back and watch history as if it were a movie?

Answer 1

I would go to the 1800's. I love the long gowns, the way they talk, the balls, etc. I would never change the future on purpose, but I would not just sit back and watch. I would want to engage in society(exp. go to balls, dinner parties, and just talk to people; see how they talk and think). I love reading historical fiction from and/or of the 1800's.

Answer 2

I think I'd go back to the 1920's...  I like the clothes styles and cars from that era... and, no, I wouldn't try to change the future...

Answer 3

I'd love to go back to Georgian times...

Answer 4

The Viking era, raping, pillaging, killing, eating magic mushrooms and getting drunk on mead and wine... sounds like my senior year lol. As far as changing history goes, why bother? It would pretty much be trading one evil for another..

Answer 5

I'd go back a little before written history was recorded to see how things were.

Or

I'd go back to the time when Homo Erectus was around so I could see how they actually looked.

And, I'd only watch it. I wouldn't try and change anything.

Answer 6

Great question! I would want to be sitting in a down town jazz club, hole in the wall somewhere, listening to Billy Holiday live. LOVE that era. I would not try to change the future, everything happens for some reason or another, and I don't want to mess with destiny.

Answer 7

Isn't anyone curious about what the ancient seven wonders really looked like? We know what the Pyramids look like, but what about the other six that were destroyed and all we know about them is conjecture? I would like to know how the Pyramids were built. I would like to read some of the lost wisdom contained in the Library at Alexandria.

Yes, we would all like to have been beautiful princesses and brave Vikings and to right the wrongs that some of our ancestors may have done, but wouldn't some of you like to have been there when Brahms wrote the Lullaby and masters such as Beethoven, Liszt, Handel, Wagner and Tchaikovsky penned their masterpieces? I would. Yes I would.

Yes I have seen "The Time Machine", the old and the new. Many times. Don't laugh, it is theoretically possible.

Think about it. What are your dreams really about? On that thought, I'm going to bed. It's 4:30 AM in Nevada. Good night everybody and may all your beautiful dreams come true.

Answer 8

I would probably want to go to the 60's, the 20's, Biblical times, or the Middle Ages. In the 60's I would be able to really see the cultural revolution that was happening, and listen to all the music legends that are now either dead or very old. In the 20's I could have helped create the polio vaccine. As well, everything would have been much cheaper then. I would bring $10 worth of todays money and get $100 dollars worth then. Mind you, my money would look a little funny to them, with all the holograms and such. It would have been just so amazing to see the miracles happen, back in the time of Christ. In the Middle Ages, I could have started a hygeine program and given untainted milk to the poor. And I would have convinced the high class ladies of the day that white mercury did NOT make good facial powder. So anyway, those are the eras I would travel to, and what I would do while in them.

Answer 9

I wouldn't try to change the future. I would go back to the 60's when my parents were kids, and 70's, when my parents met in college at Northwestern, and eventually into the early 80's when they married...I think that would be so interesting to experience. Watching my parents fall in love. Kind of weird, because they were once attractive and all, but it would be sweet.

Answer 10

I would want to maybe go back to when Vercingetorix was trying to fight off the Romans. That way I could help him formulate a strategy to beat Julius Ceaser. Or I would maybe want to go back and help Xerxes win the war against Greece since I think things would have been a little better.

Answer 11

Ok, I've always wanted to answer this question. T would travel to two different eras. I would travel to the Biblical Era because I would love to meet the disciples of Christ and the man himself, and witness all of the hardaches they suffered as well as the cities, and anything dealing with that time especially Egypt! And I would like to visit the Rennessiance Era! It seems so romantic, even though big girls were the pick of the litter at that time! :-).

People are so religious these days until I would try to tell people about what I saw, but it prob wouldn't make them any diff. It would effect me in a bunch of ways bc all the things that peps fight bout, I would kno in dept the truth. As far as the Renn. Era, nah, it would be history in the making. I'd just be honored to witness it.

Answer 12

Just a couple of years back. I would not get married

Answer 13

I would liked to have lived in The Medieval Era, as a Princess .Yes it would be interesting to watch History unfold.It would also be enlightening to watch how the future would be.Did you ever see The Time Machine or read the book ,it was written by H.G.Wells.

Answer 14

I'd go back 20 minutes ago and skip that second helping of dinner.

oof!

Answer 15

Oh!definitely the medieval era. I've always been interested in that time period.  No I wouldn't  change a thing, I'd just sit back and watch and enjoy.  I'd like to be a duchess or something like that.  That is if I could come back home after I was done doing my thing.  King Arthur would be really cool to meet up with.  To heck with Guinevere, I'd steal him for myself. And I'd really like to meet Merlin.  I bet he could teach me a few tricks.  HA!HA!HA!!!!  I really mean it though!!!

Answer 16

Back to when we first started stealing the Native American's land.  Of course I would try to change, well, tweak the future.

This country was and still is big enough for all of us.

Answer 17

I would visit a time back far enough, about 3.18 million years  to see "Lucy" and her hominid friends walk the earth. First hand visual comparisons of the apes and humans at the time would give great in-site on probably the most pondered question of today, where did we come from?

Answer 18

I think we must build our life in present time, it what about me. It is Strange, maybe but I no want go back in the future