If you could travel in time, which important point in human history would choose to visit and why?

Question

please respond with topics of general rather than personal interest and thanks in advance for taking the time to answer. My choice would be the point in time when humans first used intelligent speech.

Answer 1

One of the mysteries of History i would like solved is to know wether Anastasia did survive when the Tsar and the rest of her family died.

Answer 2

There are so many events of human history that changed the world. I would say that the American Civil War is a important point of the human history.

So many important things happened around the Civil War such as the fall of the Whig Party, the rise of a new Republican Party, the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, Uncle Tom's Cabin, John Brown's raid, the States' Rights, the election of Lincoln in 1860, the great battlefields of the Civil War, Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, the Gettysburg Address, the surrender at the Appomattox Court House, Lincoln's assassination, and the Reconstruction.

If the Union had lost to the Confederacy, the history itself would changed big. Perhaps, America would not be where we are now. The Civil War was the turning point of the human history. Lincoln has preserved the Constitution, the freedom and the economy. The war also changed the face of politics.

So, I would like to be at the great battlefields of the Civil War like the Battle of Gettysburg, where Pickett said to Lee, "General, I have no division.", the Battle of Chancellorsville where Stonewall Jackson was mortally wounded, the first and second Battles of Bull Run, the Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest single day in American military history.

I would like to be at the Appomattox Court House to witness the surrender. I would love to be there to hear Lincoln saying his Gettyburg Address. That would give me goose bumps.

"Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

-Abraham Lincoln, the Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863

Answer 3

I wish I could have seen the events that lead up to the Battle of Gettysburg. I've been studying the Civil War and that in particular I found interesting because so many soldiers were killed within only a few hours & also The Gettysburg address by Lincoln would have never taken place. that event held a lot of change and imapct for out country and it still does today.

Answer 4

The moment that The two doctors from an Oldham hospital discovered that they had the know how to produce the first ever test tube baby in the World and to have been there when Louise Brown was born. This pioneering work has brought joy to countless would be childless couples who would have probably have remained childless if it had not been for the dedication of those Doctors and Professor Sir Robert Winston. Sorry I cannot remember the Doctors names forgive me please.

Answer 5

I would travel back in time to the Wright brothers first ever flight. Imagine been a witness to the first official flight of a man made machine. Our lives have never been the same since. Man has always tried to fly like a bird...what an amazing accomplishment.

PS good question it really made me think!

Answer 6

Wow great question! I would love to go back to the high point of the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain. Just to see Britain at the high of its power with many great inventors and people having a lasting effect on the country as well as the flip side - people living in poverty and squalor. Seeing the poorer side of how bad it was and how greatful I should be nowadays.

Answer 7

There are so many eras in time that it would be hard to pick just one. I'd have to pick the Victorian era because I've learned about it just by reading Jane Austen and watching a couple of scenes from period pieces.

I want to see for myself if women were really respected (probably not) or treated like 2nd class citizens like they were in the past as well as how well people did...socio-economically speaking. In truth, I want to go behind the romanticism and see how life was really like.

Answer 8

I would stress the importance of the 19 /20th century in teaching history now. You are interested in linguistics. Just for a lark..the battle of Marathon..but I would like to watch from a safe distance.

Answer 9

The building of the Sphynx in Egypt, I woudl love to finally see who built it, why, and if there were any aliens after all.
Either that, or go back to Memphis, 1968, and prevent the death of Martin Luther King, or at least see what really happened, much like Dallas 63.

Answer 10

I think I would like to visit the library of Alexandria before it burnt. (I don't need to see the stuff about Jesus it is already well documented and of course very real I don't need to see it to believe it just like I don't need to travel to the scene of any newsarticle to believe it) but what was in that library??? so Much lost that we will never know about. I would not Stop the fire because the would change history but It would be awesome to KNOW what was known then.