If you could time travel back into history, where would you go and why?
By cher913
@cher913 (25782)
Canada
February 8, 2007 9:47am CST
I am a self confessed history FANATIC. I lay in bed at night thinking of where i would like to go in history (history is the kind of subject you either love or hate):-)
I would like to travel back to the middle ages, the turn of the 20th century, the 60's, the American civil war...
How about you, ever thought about it? If you like history as much as i do and had this opportunity, where would you go?
10 responses
@nicolec (2671)
• United States
21 Feb 07
What a great question. I too love history. Where would I like to go.
I would like to go back to ancient Japan where the honor of the Samuri was still big.
I would like to go back to the American Civil war and really see what it was like in the south back then.
I would like to travel back to the 1920's where jazz, booze and flappers/gangsters ruled life.
I would like to travel back to the renasaince years in England and live in a castle.
I would also like to go back to the late 1800s and experience the peak of immigration to the US.
gee...so many places to go.
@cher913 (25782)
• Canada
21 Feb 07
ya nicole, picture a smokey speakeasy bar in Harlam in NYC...hot jazz playing...
or perhaps people preparing to have a picnic lunch on the edge of a battlefield during the civil war (why they did this, I have no idea!!)
Or working in a sweatshop in NYC in 1911...or reading the headlines the day after the Titanic sunk...
History is so interesting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@nicolec (2671)
• United States
21 Feb 07
Or feeling what it was like to go through Ellis Island not knowing much English and having your family name 'americanized'.
Battles have always been spectator sports, I suppose. Ever since the Roman times with the Gladiator fights. Not that I would want to sit around and watch, but I guess it's why boxing is so popular these days.
Oh, ancient Rome. Now that would be interesting.
PS...thanks for best response.
@steerpyke (396)
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11 Feb 07
I have just finished reading mortimer Wheelers book on the IVC and agree that it would be a fascinating experience.
@Deelicious (362)
• Philippines
21 Feb 07
I like to daydream a lot of this too when I was in college. I am a hopeless romantic and I always wished I could go back to the times of the dukes, baron, lords...I would wish I was a damsel in distress and this duke will rescue me. Make sure I have a debut in London etc.
@karadiablo (313)
• United States
29 Mar 07
I would travel back to the dawn of the dark ages, and live in the heart of europe. There is so much history and mystery that surrounds the true events of all that happend in the dark ages, that I would love to have experienced it first hand.
@Michelangelo (10)
• China
19 Nov 07
I guess I would travel back even farther, maybe the 1300's when Gengis khan established his empire. What was the conqueror like, was he really a cruel governer?
Or I would travel back even farther than this to see how exactly the pyramids were built
@Randync (544)
• United States
11 Feb 07
If I had to pick a time and place to go back and live, it would be the 1960's in America. Great cars, great music, no AIDS, free love and all that. Vietnam would be the only drawback.
To go back and visit it would be when Jesus was killed. Or to go back and see the American Civil War.
@steerpyke (396)
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11 Feb 07
I would like to visit Iron Age britian, just prior to the Roman's arrival. So much is made of the Romans contribution to British culture that the Iron Age or celtic people get over looked so it would be interesting to live their life for a bit and learn the truth.
@abroji (3247)
• India
21 Feb 07
I would choose to go back to pre-independence India to witness the Gandhian way of resistance of an occupying super colonialist. There is no equels in world history to Gandhi's Ahimsa movement. There are people who critisise Gandhi for his non violence movement. But it stands unique in history.
