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Art, Writing, and Learning: The Clerisy Quarter => History, Science, and Interesting Information - The Great Library => Topic started by: Skull on November 10, 2012, 12:34:40 AM
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...which one would you chose?
I would like to take part in Caesar's conquest of Gaul,and in the final siege of Constantinople.
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Siege of Constantinople would be high on my list (as a defender). Just because the Theodosian wall is so freaking epic.
Also the East Anglian Risings of 1549 and the Tyrolean Rising of 1525/6/7 would be in there as possibilities (with the peasants). And Cannae with Hannibal Barca, just to witness probably the most impressive set-piece mauling in the history of warfare.
Outside the world of war, I'd like to have been there when Da Vinci died, so I could make sure his discoveries were not lost for a few centuries (some of his medical advancements weren't re-found until the 1950s, so it's fair to say we could have accelerated technologically a bit faster that way.
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Siege of Constantinople would be high on my list (as a defender). Just because the Theodosian wall is so freaking epic.
I would choose to be the defender too. Not because of the walls,but because I really want to stop the greatest tragedy in world history.
Cannae with Hannibal Barca, just to witness probably the most impressive set-piece mauling in the history of warfare.
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Outside the world of war, I'd like to have been there when Da Vinci died, so I could make sure his discoveries were not lost for a few centuries (some of his medical advancements weren't re-found until the 1950s, so it's fair to say we could have accelerated technologically a bit faster that way.
LOL,if you did that,Tanks would be used in the middle ages... ;D
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I'd like to go back to when the aliens visited.
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Cannae with Hannibal Barca, just to witness probably the most impressive set-piece mauling in the history of warfare.
>:(
What's so wrong with Hannibal?
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The gates of Kisle... Oh, wait.
Possibly some of the Crusades. Third or sixth, I guess.
Or the discovery of Americas. But those events were probably full of pillage and rape, and I wouldn't want to be a part of that.
I used to be a lot more enthusiastic about historical events and life in the middle ages.
Now I've learned to appreciate this modern society and judge things from other people's shoes (even though they sometimes stink). But hey, that's why they're called the OTHER PEOPLE'S shoes. They're more or less expected to stink. :P
Meh, I guess I grew up.
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pillage and rape, and I would want t be a part of that.
Meh, I guess I grew up.
;D Sorry, I notice things like that.
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Hahaha.
Edited. What can I say.
Laptop touchpads are misleading and letter eating spawns of satan.
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Since this is really an interesting historical natter thread, moved to the Great Library.
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Hmmmm, Constantinople would be a good one...
Now a follow-on question... Historical events that you would be present for that you would try to change the outcome.
And how would you do it?
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Possibly the Suffrage Movement.
Back to the days when it took fair talent to be a musician/actor/actress. *sigh*
If also love to see late Georgian/Early Victorian Britain. :)
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Hm, that period would be interesting. I'd probably skip either of the wars though, getting shot in a trench is not on my priority list somehow.
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Yeah, wartime years are probably one to avoid... I suppose it's not so bad for women though. It'd actually be interesting during that time (WWII) to be one of the women who spied on planes in Britain. :)
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Be an observer in the enola gay.... Just to see it, I mean it was horrific and all but its still an important point in (fairly) recent history
Be one of the guys with a sledgehammer in at the fall of the Berlin wall
One of the 300 spartans :D
Defender in the Great sieges of Malta and Gibraltar
Nuremburg rally would be cool to see
EDIT: I forgot to specify the wall...
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Manzikert probably a good addition to my list, and Gniezno in 1000 AD because the Poles and Germans have been arguing about what happened there ever since and I'd like to know who was right.
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Cannae with Hannibal Barca, just to witness probably the most impressive set-piece mauling in the history of warfare.
>:(
What's so wrong with Hannibal?
Nothing really,but I am a bit of a Romanophile.
I used to be a lot more enthusiastic about historical events and life in the middle ages.
I guess Stronghold is to blame for that... ;D
Be an observer in the enola gay.... Just to see it, I mean it was horrific and all but its still an important point in (fairly) recent history
One of the 300 spartans :D
Hmm... ::)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_in_the_militaries_of_ancient_Greece (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_in_the_militaries_of_ancient_Greece)
Manzikert probably a good addition to my list, and Gniezno in 1000 AD because the Poles and Germans have been arguing about what happened there ever since and I'd like to know who was right.
On which side would you be,and why?
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Realised I never answered the Manzikert question.
I'd prefer to just observe, or possibly stay with the Norman contingent who failed to join the battle for safety's sake. If I was going to be partisan, though, then Byzantines over Turks, they were defending their lands after all.
At Gniezno the question's obviously less relevant, I'd just like to see what went on.
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Hmmmm, Constantinople would be a good one...
Now a follow-on question... Historical events that you would be present for that you would try to change the outcome.
And how would you do it?
For presence- perhaps one of the City Dionysias that we don't have the plays from. Or maybe the Battle of Trafalgar- probably from one of the British frigates that stayed close to the fighting but didn't take part in it.
For changing the outcome, I'd quite like to try saving Rigas Feraios and see if he could succeed in bringing the French Revolution to the Balkans. Not sure how I'd do it, though- warn him he was going to be betrayed?
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I would be happy to walk from somewhere in Syria to Ecbatana in the reign of Cyrus King of Kings, stopping in Babylon to ask some rude questions in Aramaic and again in Late Babylonian. We know so little about what happened during his lifetime ...
The same for walking from Bavaria to Padua over the Reschenpass in the age of Francesco di Marco Datini.
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I can now amend my previous answers to this with the addition of wanting to be present at just about any sitting of Tamar's court, especially if I got to conduct interviews (I'd need about a six month time travel trip of which five would be spent giving myself a middle Georgian crash course, but totally worth it). :)
Historical journeys are an interesting one - I'd love to do the 12th or 13th century silk roads (I'd also like to do the modern silk road journey, but the paperwork to get all the visas would be a nightmare and it'd cost far too much).