Which period of history would you have like to have lived in and why?

Question

If you could choose to go back and live your life during any period of history, which would you choose and why? Who would you like to meet? What do you think your life would be like?

Remember it could be ANY period of history since the beginning of time, not just in the last century.

Eph514 - In answer to your question, there are several eras which would have been interesting to me to have lived in. The Renaissance, The Victorian era, The American Revolution era, The 50's in Europe, The 40's in the US. There are many interesting ones.

Answer 1

during the peak of the greek empire..i find it so fascinating, the lifestyle, the knowledge, the technology, the philosophers.. and i love the medieval age too.. well, i'm just an ancient soul, what to do..

Answer 2

Thanks for answering my question. Now I'll answer yours.

Besides the obvious and awesome choice of A.D. 0 and seeing Jesus and the early Christian church firsthand, there are a few other times/places that interest me.

One thing that I find lacking in today's society is a spirit of liberty, freedom, and fighting/self-sacrifice for a worthy cause. For this reason I would like to go back to the times of

The American Revolution
The Middle Ages
The Roman Empire (post-Christ)

I'd want to meet men and women who still stand for something. In the Revolution, I'd be one of Sam Adams' Sons of Liberty and fight for freedom. In the Middle Ages, I'd defend the honor of my king or lady. In the Roman Empire, I'd stand up for what I believe in to the point of martyrdom.

But, anyway, even though I admire some of the people and ideas of these eras, they had their problems just as we have ours today. And I'm sure that even in the good 'ol days people were remembering and longing for the good 'ol days.

My job is to live my life to the fullest where God has placed me, in this time. Good question.

PS ---
Another time period I would like to have lived in is the Westward Expansion/frontier era of the United States. The kind of self-reliance, adventure, etc., that being a pioneer would bring is something I wish I could have experienced.

PPS ---
And I probably would have died at the Alamo.

Answer 3

I think I'd just want to go back to the mid 1800's live in a time just before cars and pollution, but still in a fairly civil society. I would want to meet Edgar Allan Poe and see how people really reacted to what he wrote. I think I would probably buy into real estate, if I could know what I know now. Can you imagine that? How ould you like to go back 150 years and buy every piece of land that a wal-mart now stands on. You'd be richer than them! Well no, but you'd be pretty well off. I don't know, I just really like that era, the world was going through a lot and it would be cool to see how everything came to be.

Answer 4

I would like to have lived during the Victorian era in Britain - Among the upper classes of course. There was plenty of money among the gentry, servants to do your bidding, good formal manners in society and beautiful wives obeyed their husbands. The sun never set in the empire, they say, and the colonials knew their place, what? If you wanted adventure you could always join the Indian civil service, live in a huge house, play polo at weekends, drink cocktails every evening and be called sahib. What about you, mem sahib?

Answer 5

I bet a fun thing would be to go way back in time to where there was going to be an eclipse and tell the cave men, "If I have come to destroy you, may the sun be blotted out from the sky." Just then the eclipse would start, and they'd probably try to kill you or something, but then you could explain about the rotation of the moon and all, and everyone would get a good laugh.

Answer 6

1950's and 1960's.I would like to see what it was like to live during the Cold war,and in fear of a of the Cuban Missile Crisis. See the White House tour that Mrs.Kennedy had on TV.I would like to meet President Eisenhower and President Kennedy,both 1st ladies.It seems like the 50's and the 60's was much more interesting than the 70,80's.It didn't seem like much was happening besides Nixon's Watergate scandal,The Challenger blowing up in the sky.

Answer 7

Pre Civil War in the USA to stop the selling of human beings!!!

However, being a women and I don't think I would make that possible the civil war. Because I just feel in tuned with the era and totally do not believe in slavery. Would do something to help to rid our country of it and help to make changes for the slaves and make their lives easier.

Not all white people are racists.

Answer 8

I think I might like to have lived during the 1920's. It was a time of experimentation and intellectual explosions. Everything was newly beginning ... women were starting to do important things, like fly planes, and some of the most prevailing intellectual thought, today, was thought of and discussed then. It was a time of artistic innovation: silent films and cabaret music.

I think it was a very sexy time -- I love the hairstyles and the clothes!

Perhaps no better time exists than the one we live in... provided we work to make OUR times BETTER for the future.

Answer 9

The pre-historic era. I can live with the dinosaurs, take pictures of them, ride them, and also teach the caveman the different sexual positions. I'm sure that's how it started when someone in the future invented a time machine and went back in time.

Answer 10

I would like to re-live the 90's. I lived a sheltered life through that time. I enjoyed what I could, but I would have loved to be more involved.

Answer 11

Probably the late 50s through late 60s. I think it would be fun to see the world change from conformity to the age of aquarius.