Going back in time.

[Tsa-la-gi Nation]

yea for freedom from oppression.

Slaughtering everyone he came across freed people? How is that logical?

Thats BS. He tried to unite the tribes to keep the ohio valley free from settlement. He's one of the greatest americans that ever lived.

[Distruzio]

Slaughtering everyone he came across freed people? How is that logical?

Thats BS. He tried to unite the tribes to keep the ohio valley free from settlement. He's one of the greatest americans that ever lived.

My mistake. I was thinking of Tecumseh Sherman. Now I follow. Yeah, your Tecumseh is much better than the prick I was thinking about.

[Blazedtown]

Slaughtering everyone he came across freed people? How is that logical?

Thats BS. He tried to unite the tribes to keep the ohio valley free from settlement. He's one of the greatest americans that ever lived.

Not wanting America to expand makes him among the greatest Americans that ever lived?

Does not compute.

[Tsa-la-gi Nation]

Thats BS. He tried to unite the tribes to keep the ohio valley free from settlement. He's one of the greatest americans that ever lived.

My mistake. I was thinking of Tecumseh Sherman. Now I follow. Yeah, your Tecumseh is much better than the prick I was thinking about.

No problem, & I agree with you. Sherman was a prick.

[Tsa-la-gi Nation]

Thats BS. He tried to unite the tribes to keep the ohio valley free from settlement. He's one of the greatest americans that ever lived.

Not wanting America to expand makes him among the greatest Americans that ever lived?

Does not compute.

He inspired, not just people, but peoples to rise up together & defend their homelands. If there was a native american state today, he would be on the one dollar bill.

[Distruzio]

Not wanting America to expand makes him among the greatest Americans that ever lived?

Does not compute.

He inspired, not just people, but peoples to rise up together & defend their homelands. If there was a native american state today, he would be on the one dollar bill.

There is one... and he is cited as an inspiration... and they refuse to print money out of thin air. They rely on silver coins instead. They simply haven't received international recognition yet.

[Grave_n_idle]

And steel technology predates the Roman empire by a thousand years or more, so there's no reason obtaining steel should be a real problem.

The methods to produce it cheaply and in significant numbers, however, are about 150 years old.

I assume we're talking about the Bessemer process?

The process itself is considerably older than the patent. Like, at least a thousand years older. But there's no reason why a timetraveller couldn't introduce some post-industrial knowledge to primitive processes.

[Mosasauria]

Give any sort of fully automatic firearm to Egyptians. Let them figure out how it works, then see what the world becomes.

[Atlantian Empire]

If you could take a piece of modern technology with you back in time, what would it be and for what purpose?

I'd take some of Benjamin Franklin's research notes on electricity to some Roman scholars.

All current advancements in medicine back to 14th century. Should be fun to see how it turns out.

[Grave_n_idle]

If you could take a piece of modern technology with you back in time, what would it be and for what purpose?

I'd take some of Benjamin Franklin's research notes on electricity to some Roman scholars.

An american history book back to the constitutional convention. That way they'd see the monster they were creating by trying to create a gov't of more vigor.

I think you'd be surprised by the reception you receive. Considering what a clusterfuck the Articles of Confederation had been, I would guess they would take your history book as vindication, rather than a cautionary tale.

[Farnhamia]

Give any sort of fully automatic firearm to Egyptians. Let them figure out how it works, then see what the world becomes.

I wonder if it wouldn't just end up in some tomb somewhere. They wouldn't have the scientific mind-set to figure it out. An automatic weapon is fairly complex and requires mechanics, physics, chemistry, all sort of disciplines the Egyptians didn't have.

[Make up your own mind]

Go back to those cave paintings in France and paint Homer Simpson's face on all the buffalo. Or photobomb historic photos.

I'll walk around behind Charlie Chaplin with a mobile phone

Yes!

[Rithian]

Isn't it obvious? I'd take back the Catholic Encyclopedia to Peter/Paul/an apostle, then bring him back to the modern day so he can slap the Pope silly.

[Conserative Morality]

He inspired, not just people, but peoples to rise up together & defend their homelands. If there was a native american state today, he would be on the one dollar bill.

But of course, there isn't. Vae Victis.

[Conserative Morality]

I'd take back a simple printing press (Movable type FTW) back to Rome, circa 180 BC.

[Conserative Morality]

I'd take Sten guns back to the Roman Empire, and avoid a millennium and a half of the civilised world sinking back into barbarism.

*nods*

I approve of this. I should hope you arrive before the Battle of the Teutoberg Forest put Augustus off of expansion?

[Augarundus]

Give the Native Americans vaccinations and tanks.

This was really awesome.

Give Native Americans AK47's, vaccinations, and a city-planning polymath. Watch them take over Eurasia.

[Conserative Morality]

This was really awesome.

Give Native Americans AK47's, vaccinations, and a city-planning polymath. Watch them take over Eurasia.

Why would you expect a group of divided tribes without boats to conquer a continent on the other side of the ocean?

[Make up your own mind]

If you could take a piece of modern technology with you back in time, what would it be and for what purpose?

I'd take some of Benjamin Franklin's research notes on electricity to some Roman scholars.

All current advancements in medicine back to 14th century. Should be fun to see how it turns out.

The population of the earth would be a lot bigger. I wonder if there would be more monarchies today. Our quality of life would probably be totally awesome. Since current medical technology includes stuff like artificial hearts (which would be quite controversial at the time) there would be full fledged cyborgs or mutants by 2011. Fact, absolutely no speculation here.

[Conserative Morality]

The population of the earth would be a lot bigger. I wonder if there would be more monarchies today. Our quality of life would probably be totally awesome. Since current medical technology includes stuff like artificial hearts (which would be quite controversial at the time) there would be full fledged cyborgs or mutants by 2011. Fact, absolutely no speculation here.

More like accusations of heresy and a new golden age squashed in the making.

[Make up your own mind]

The population of the earth would be a lot bigger. I wonder if there would be more monarchies today. Our quality of life would probably be totally awesome. Since current medical technology includes stuff like artificial hearts (which would be quite controversial at the time) there would be full fledged cyborgs or mutants by 2011. Fact, absolutely no speculation here.

More like accusations of heresy and a new golden age squashed in the making.

Well... what can I say?

[Genivaria]

I'd take Sten guns back to the Roman Empire, and avoid a millennium and a half of the civilised world sinking back into barbarism.

*nods*

I approve of this. I should hope you arrive before the Battle of the Teutoberg Forest put Augustus off of expansion?

Varus! GIVE ME BACK MY LEGIONS!

[Conserative Morality]

Varus! GIVE ME BACK MY LEGIONS!

Proof that I'm a history nerd: I wrote an entire poem on that.

[RobCo Industries]

Nuclear fission technology so by now we'd either be still in a nuclear winter, or have nuclear fusion.

Hopefully the second.

[Genivaria]

Varus! GIVE ME BACK MY LEGIONS!

Proof that I'm a history nerd: I wrote an entire poem on that.

Wow, and I thought I had it bad.
ROMAN HISTORY IS AWESOME!