2006-10-30 02:01:59 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Although I can instantly think of over a dozen points in time that I'd love to visit, the one that tops my list is the turn of the century, Especially since location was not part of the question.
There were exciting new inventions coming out every day. Automobiles and airplanes were in the works. Motion pictures were emerging. Indoor plumbing and electricity were arriving, through most people wouldn't have a flush toilet for years yet.
And, more of the world was at peace than at almost any other time in history.
The culmination of this experience would be the first World's Fair in 1904. Almost every country in the world was represented at the massive fair. The event was held in St. Louis, where a park the size of a city was built as the grounds (the largest fair of all time in the world). It lasted a full 8 months. Just a few of the famous people who attended include Thomas Edison, Scott Joplin, Theodore Roosevelt, and Geronimo. Ice cream cones, among many other things, were first introduced at the fair. The fair also had the world's largest ferris wheel of all time. The center axle weighed over 72 tons, and was the largest single piece of forged steel in the world.
Well, anyway, that's where I'd go.
2006-10-30 09:37:00 · answer #1 · answered by eternallythirsty 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Right now, I'm afraid.
I think life was really hard back then and you spent so much time physically doing things like washing, carrying water, with no electricity etc etc. It was all very well if you were rich, but someone had to do the slaving. And then you could never ever be on your own - you'd alays be at the mercy of servants.
No, I think we've reached a point in history where life is much easier and healthier than it was for our ancestors.
I don't say it is prettier - I know it isn't. But I love my dishwasher and my washing machine. I love popping into London on the Tube. I love the fact that my daughter's are getting an education that means the won't be subject to a man's say so. I love the fact that food is plenty. Yeah - life is good.
As for the politics - we're no worse off than any time else. We've lived in the shadow of nuclear war for at least forty years. There have always been wars.
victorian England with its chimney sweeps, it's mills, it's mines etc look pretty. But they were downright cruel and horrible places to be in if you were poor.
2006-10-30 02:20:15 · answer #2 · answered by True Blue Brit 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
But only if you were **** of the midden. When people answer such questions, they normally think that everyone lived like kings and queens way back then. Personally I would not have liked to live in Victorian times. There was no sewage system. Most towns stank, there was precious little education for the children, virtually no street lighting. You could only eat fruit and veg in season, meat was unrefrigerated etc. etc. The age of the rich man in his castle, the poor man at his gate (From the popular hymn of the time: 'All things bright and beautiful').
I would like to have lived in the 1st Elizabethan era, the age of discovering new worlds - but only if I had been a member of the privileged classes.
2006-10-30 03:13:42 · answer #3 · answered by cymry3jones 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think the answer depends on where you are in the hierarchy. Victorian Britain was only good if you were rich. If you had to work, it would normally be in a factory for a few pence a week. I would like to be a Shogun in 17th Century Japan. You had the power and the wealth to do anything you wanted. With servants for your every whim.
2006-10-30 02:09:51 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ancient Egypt, I'd like to have been a Queen to give that Cleopatra some competition! It just seemed so enchanting, the different beliefs, Gods, the beautiful pyramids, the weather & brilliant eye-liner hehe. I'd also like to take a breif trip back to the late 1970's early 1980's to see The Sex Pistols, The Jam & The Clash play live!
2006-10-30 02:12:39 · answer #5 · answered by IndieChick 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Personally I would love to have been a super-rich person in mid 19th century Britain -get to wear all those beautiful dresses and such. Or for a very short time I'd like to go see what Rennaisance or Medieval Britain was like.
Oooh and I'd love to go see an original Shakespeare play - 'the Scottish play' preferably. Or be the orignal punk rocker (with flowers in my hair!)
2006-10-30 02:06:27 · answer #6 · answered by loonyTunes 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh yes oh yes,mine too. I would loved to have been born around 1870 into a upper class family, making me a Mistress of the House in 1900, watching all the changes going on at the turn of the centuary in my household and around me.
2006-10-30 02:06:48 · answer #7 · answered by London Girl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm a woman and I think I'd be mad to live at any time other than now - quite apart from the matter of the restrictions on womens lives, the horrors of other ages' dentistry and midwifery just make my blood run cold.
2006-10-30 10:56:04 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
With you on this one, Victorian Britain here I come! woooo, 1837..would love to see the crowning of the new queen.
keep the love xx
2006-10-30 02:18:50 · answer #9 · answered by sportyrb2 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would depend on if I could take people with me or not. If I could take my friends and family, I would go to north-central america in about 10,100 BC, right before the first wave of humans came over from Asia. I bet the wild life would be amazing and we could start something of our own. Maybe today the world would be much much different.
2006-10-30 02:14:11 · answer #10 · answered by Hans B 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋