If you could live in another period in history...

Probably in the 1860's in America. I have long been fasinated in the Civil War and what led up to it. To see how people really felt, and what could be so bad, that it pitted brother against brother.

In what period would I live? In the past. If I have lived 1700 years ago I'd have tried to help my Pagan forefathers to face the growing Christianity. If I have lived at the time of the Athenian polis, I'd have walked to the Aeropagus and I'd have met people like Socrates, Aeschilus, Sofocles, Euripides, Phidias.... and at last, if I have lived in the Neolithic times I'd have lived in villages in which there was the equality between men and women and I'd have worshipped Potnia, the Great Mother. Here are the three periods in which I'd have wanted to live.

I wouldn't prefer any other time as what I'm living now. I'm not saying this because I'm used to this kind of life. But, when you come to think of it.. it's hard to live with lamps at night and without street lights. During the 16th-18th century, those are the times where war and colonialism is widely spread. Just think of how hard it is to live during those times.. I don't wanna live like.. a hundred years from now as well or any time in the future.. population grows, pollution becomes more and more problem.. we already experience global warming effects nowadays.. how much more will the people centuries from now will suffer? That's why I'm loving this generation that I'm in now..

I would have loved to have been an American who moved out west in the nineteenth century, starting a new life, building a new home, leearning new things..fantastic and challenging except for the bit about displacing native Americans....

I think in many ways I was born a century or two too late but in other ways, I wouldn't want to live in a period other than this one. If I had to pick another period of history it would be 19th century New Orleans because that is where it all began with my family's history, and I admire my ancestors from that period very much and I would love to have been alive to know them perosnally or vice versa. I also adore the cultural elements of that period - so ornate and attentive to detail. It would be ideal if there were a period of time that would combine the characteristics of both eras!

i wouldnt want to live back then, just visit... ;-) Byt the turn of the 20th century, the American civil war (i am Canadian), the Middle Ages, the ages of Egyptian Pharohs...

I would have loved to live in a Miwok or Pomo culture on the west coast of the United States at least 100 years before the arrival of any European. Life was good, food was abundant, the climate was mild and they were a very peaceful society. I might have also enjoyed living during the age of the earliest Norsemen, right after they invented thier ships which were capable of crossing the sea. It would have been a great age of glory, exploration and plunder. I suppose which answer that would be my final answer would depend on the day I had to make the final decision!