Which Point in History Would You Like to go to?

[DiscordedBrony 77]

A pretty simple question. If you had a time machine and could go back to any moment in history (including the future), where would you want to visit? Choose ONE time only, however. You're most wanted time to travel to.

 

Me personally, there is a lot of points in time I want to go to, but I'd choose to visit the 60's. Such a groovy and hip time

Edited May 26, 2014 by DiscordedBrony

[Captain MacMillian 28]

I know it isn't too far back, but i would go back to 2001-04. I miss the good ol' days of Halo 1 and 2 on Xbox, and spending countless hours playing the singleplayer/multiplayer on those games with friends and NOT annoying little 12-year-olds.

[DiscordedBrony 77]

And, I would also like to go and check out World wars 1 & 2!

Edited May 26, 2014 by DiscordedBrony

[Steel Accord 6,660]

The Renaissance. The proliferation of knowledge, the ending of the Dark Ages, the slowly ebbing power of nobility against the self-made man.

 

Plus, all the still open sword schools that didn't require military service is a highly personal highlight of mine.

[SpaceUnicorn 22]

I would go back to the time of the Greek and Egyptian philosophers and engineers as I would just love to know how they achieved the technical feats they had with geometric knowledge and the beginnings of modern physics and math to survey land, plan construction and navigate the ocean.

 

With all the high-tech we have today, what did they do back then to build large and geometrically precise constructs?

[Steel Accord 6,660]

And, I would also like to go and check out World wars 1 & 2!

 

Give 2 a visit, WWI is worth a miss. The Nazis may have been the most un-debatably evil group in human history, but the First World War was basically one country falling over and pulling all of it's allies and enemies down with it. One of the bloodiest chapters in history, and unlike WWII, the first one largely didn't even have a point. Nothing was gained but blood and a boiling resentment for things to come . . .

I would go back to the time of the Greek and Egyptian philosophers and engineers as I would just love to know how they achieved the technical feats they had with geometric knowledge and the beginnings of modern physics and math to survey land, plan construction and navigate the ocean.

 

With all the high-tech we have today, what did they do back then to build large and geometrically precise constructs?

 

Make sure you spirit some scrolls from the Library of Alexandria while you're there. The largest repository of knowledge in the world before the internet, containing details of history we still don't know as well as lost inventions such as your mentioned architectural and engineering techniques.

 

Goddamn zealots for burning it all! If I was among those knights, I would have died defending and rescuing that knowledge! "Heretical" my plot!

[Rainboom Dash 1,056]

While there's so many places and times I would go, I'd love to go back to the 60s so I could see how the times and trends were. Plus see the Beatles.

[FlyingChicken 154]

I would go back in the time when the dinosaurs were still alive. I really want to see them.

[Side Bird 566]

Most likely roman times, peak of it's empire. Or the 1700's. Seeing the Milan civilization or checking out the Moors wouldn't be bad. Seeing old countries like the Ottoman Empire would be awesome.

Would love to go find out something mysterious though, like when a civilization vanished or a tribe dissapeared, or a town/city, would be cool to see what happened.

[Wade Barrett 111]

The Late Middle Ages.

 

When killing the French was an occupation rather than a crime. Yes, give me my longbow and my fealty to the king, let me fight in battles such as Crecy, and let me make my fame and fortune in striking down England's enemies.

[Justin_Case001 4,892]

Definitely the future.  I dream of living in a Star Trek era with no economy/money.  Plus they're so much techonolgy that I wish I could live to see.  There's a lot of almost star trek level of technology that will be invented within my lifetime, but it will be in prototype phase.  I wish I could live to see it become mainstream.  For instance, eventually 3-D printing will literally reach star trek replicator levels.  But of course, I wouldn't know when in the future to go to.  Don't go far enough and the technology won't exist, and we'll still have a crappy economy.  Go to far and you got The Road or The Book of Eli.  I guess I'd just do the ol' Alexander Hartdegen spin-and-click and hope for the best.

[DubWolf 17,264]

I would travel to the 80s; great era of music (Stiinnnnng!), there isn't a relatively large amount of trouble going on, and I'll be plane spotting, checking out all those classic aircraft at the time .

[ReverseFaller 2,483]

Probably the late 1930's. I'd love to see an old timey New York. Also, I wouldn't mind seeing the old cartoons, and listening to the old music. Living through the World War 2 era would be interesting as well.

[Arctic Night 884]

The future. I might be able to use intelligence gathered on my journey to prevent humans from making some awful mistake.

[Steve 290]

i would honestly go to the begining of the 90's. id get to experience games and shows i missed out on as a kid

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[Scootaloodle 1,623]

The 1970s:

 

The design: space phones, Bond bugs, Raleigh Choppers (made in my hometown)

 

Cars: Capris, Escorts, Cortinas, Bond Bugs, Reliant Scimitars, Rover SD1 (SD1 was a terrible car but the way it looked especially the front, looked like a Ferrari Daytona, I’ve always had a fascination with them)

 

Music: I love 70s dance records, and Funk and stuff and being able to go back and buy it on vinyl new.

[Zenit 190]

1960's. In London. Swinging London.

[Discordian 6,015]

I'd probably go back to either the 70s or 80s because the job market didn't totally suck back then. I wouldn't want to go back much further simply because of wars and diseases that we either have vaccination for now or are completely dead in this era and we don't have to worry about it. It's pretty likely that going back too far would introduce us to strains our bodies simply don't have any defense for and we'd become deathly ill pretty easily.

[Khaoios 1,970]

The future. I might be able to use intelligence gathered on my journey to prevent humans from making some awful mistake.

 

Same here......I want to gather as much intelligence as possible, so when I come back from the future, i have something.   *calls in DeLorean*

[Envy 6,169]

As much of a history nerd as I may be, I can't see myself going back too far. I probably wouldn't be able to survive in the past. History is not a nice place. =/

 

So, I'd opt to just go back to the mid 2000s and force myself to take better care of myself, so I wouldn't be in the giant hole I am in right now. Perhaps it still wouldn't work the way I wish it would, but even so, I would be living much differently.

 

However, I will say, if I had a super special time machine that could do whatever I wanted (no limits) and I could be magically shielded from being killed/hurt/diseased and could come back whenever I wanted, I'd go to the ancient world to see all of the beautiful structures of the ancient civilizations when they weren't torn by time, or destroyed. I'd also use it to learn history much more in depth. Best of all, I'd get to see the music and musical instruments of the time. For that particularly I'd like to go to Medieval and Renaissance times and learn the instrumental music, since due to the church looking down on instrumental music (as if I needed another reason to dislike the church lol), we have so little recorded instrumental music from those times left.

 

Although that's all so vast and would be impossible to do. lol

[Barack Ollama 25]

the year with eye-used computers and everyone can own a sniper rifle and a axe.

[Revy ~ Two Hands 862]

300 million years ago when Pangea had formed but before the triassic era, I'd invite others and have an epic party but it would be BYOB.

[Anneal 2,197]

The Song Dynasty in China (Or Han or Ming Dynasty) or pre-Meiji Japan. Both are considered Asian Golden Ages in Asia, where a good deal of art and literature were made and the countroes was majorly in a time of peace. (Most classical poems you see in China would be made in the Tang and Song Dynasty.)

 

China was basically the "Asian Roman" Empire back then, if you don't count the Middle East and India, though unfortunately its downfall was its lack of openness to the West in the 19th century.

[Dovashy 1,734]

This is a very tricky question to answer. There are heaps of times I can think of, but I will have to go with the building of the Pyramids of Egypt. It would be interesting to see how they truly did it, and if the historians were correct.  Wooooah, that was close. Almost posted this into one of my roleplays, my bad. Lucky I didn't have enough characters, and now I do, scratch that, this section doesn't have a 300 word limit. 

Edited July 8, 2014 by Dovashy