Time travel: which time and place is it for you?

[Harovan]

Originally posted by molly bloom
Failing that, one of the early Christian kingdoms in Nubia.

Is that where all the nubs in online games are from?

Anyway, it don't really matter, because the odds that you will end up as a slave or a lowly serf are equally high (99%+) pretty much everywhere at this time. Perhaps I would prefer some muslim country around 1200-1400, mind you they were ahead the rest of the world culturally and scientifically by centuries (and didn't develop since then...).

[Kuciwalker]

I wouldn't go - way too unsanitary.

[Proteus_MST]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
I wouldn't go - way too unsanitary.

You could go there and be the person that invented soap

After all this you just have to produce potassium and let it react with fat. RThis way you could improve the sanitary conditions of this time and get rich as well

[One_more_turn]

The past doesn't interest me. Even minor diseases, such as appendix infection, can kill you.

And if you manage to piss off the locals, it's very likely they will do one of the following to you:
1. Breaking on the Wheel;
2. Impalement;
3. Death by Thousand Cuts;
4. Burning at the Stake;
5. Hung, Drawn, and Quartered;
6. Other scary unplesantries.

[PLATO]

Actually...right here in Tennessee...say 1450...nice little Cherokee Village.

[OzzyKP]

Re: Time travel: which time and place is it for you?

Originally posted by BeBro
Say you'd have to choose a point in time pre-1600 AD to live in. You can choose freely where on Earth, but have no control at all in which position you would end up (monk, knight, slave, peasant, king, emperor, whatever).

So, which time and place would be yours and why?

Well since I don't speak any language other than English I guess that narrows my options. Nor would I be able to pick up a local language quick enough to save me from the rack, I'm gonna have to go with London for my location.

As for the time, I guess late 1500's. See if I can make a bit of money, maybe build a theater and invest in a young Shakespeare, make some more money. Then ship out in 1606 (and beat those posers at Jamestown) for the New World and name a colony after myself, and have lots and lots of kids to populate America. Maybe try to get Virginia started off on a non-slavery trajectory.

Then buy/steal/trade beads for some land in DC cause in 400 years it'll be really, really expensive.

Then maybe invent some really basic machines in Virginia, and hasten the industrial revolution, maybe make it start in the US instead of England, so we can pwn the world even more.

[OzzyKP]

If I had a bit more flexibility though I'd go back to the 1970's and get involved in the youth rights movement of the time and try to stop it from crashing and burning by the end of the decade. Invest some money in Apple & Microsoft, make a bundle of cash, and start a ridiculously wealthy foundation to fund youth rights work.

[Heraclitus]

Sorry Ozzy but one inventor would not hasten the Industrial revolution especially in a underpopulated region such as the Eastern coast of North America in the early 17th century.

[OzzyKP]

Not hasten it by much mind you... heh

[Ninot]

4000 B.C., Garden of Eden

[Heraclitus]

Originally posted by Ninot
Garden of Eden

No such thing

[Ninot]

HEATHEN

[Hauptman]

City of troy with a duffel bag full of ammo, a couple machine guns, maybe a 60mm morter and some claymors. Defend troy all alone I would.

[Nikolai]

Israel/Palestine area in the Roman times. Preferably as a Roman citizen.

[Wernazuma III]

I'd love to be in Teotihuacán at the end of its golden age, witnessing the big fire that happened and started its decline. Wondering what this was about.

Or a Maya city in the classic age, ot Tiwanaku.

In all cases I'd like to be a trader - uperr class was much to belligerant for my taste, lower people had to work too hard, and not being from the city itself would, in the case of Teotihuacán, raise the possibilities to end on top of a pyramid - no thanks.