and tell the (founding fathers, the romans, or anyother historical people) somthing what would you say to them and why?
2007-02-15 12:59:08 · 9 answers · asked by lilly s 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Other - Arts & Humanities
I would go back to my family in the past and stay there.
2007-02-15 13:16:58 · answer #1 · answered by saltydunes24 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd go back to approximately 1625 and tell the Parliament in England and the Virginia House of Burgesses that, unless they enacted laws against lifetime servitude, the New World would be thrown into centuries of turmoil and iniquity.
Until that time, Africans brought to the American colonies were treated like indentured service and released from forced labor after a certain period of time. But by the mid-1600's, life-long slavery was gaining its despotic foothold on American labor and America's economy. I'd like to tell the men responsible what their slippage into the evil of slavery did to millions of people and how its cruelties have influenced life in the US to the present day. Of course, I'd have to change gender before I go, since they wouldn't listen to a woman.
2007-02-15 21:18:20 · answer #2 · answered by Holly R 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ancient Rome,
and tell Ceasar to beware of the occult.
Or maybe tell Chris Columbus to pack for a longer trip...His map of Atlantis is outdated by about 9500 years.
Or maybe tell the Aztec to ambush the bearded men as soon as they hit the shore
2007-02-15 21:17:33 · answer #3 · answered by austin j 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
id tell the founding fathers what American government has become. how the federal gov. has all the power and doesn't do whats best for the people and what politics now means. Basically that their fairy-land gov. they set up in the constitution is bull-crap
2007-02-15 21:08:00 · answer #4 · answered by Monkey Lady 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For me it's tough. I'd be tempted to figure out if Nostradamus was real--I'd ask him, are they visions? Are they dreams? Maybe get him to sketch what he saw. I'd wanna find out if it was really the future he saw, or we interpret it that way, or what.
I'd also think about going back to the Mayan times and whatnot. I'd want to know why they ended the calendar at 2012 and how they figured that out.
2007-02-15 21:11:38 · answer #5 · answered by Little Girl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would tell Mark Twain that he was a man way ahead of his time, that his ideas and observations were on the mark.
2007-02-15 21:07:16 · answer #6 · answered by Memo Erdes 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would tell them they are doomed and not to bother getting out of bed in the morning.
2007-02-15 21:09:33 · answer #7 · answered by kicking_back 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would go back in time and give the Native American tribes a big ' heads up ' about the ' white man '......why? ....isn't it obvious?
2007-02-16 00:02:24 · answer #8 · answered by G.reaper 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't. It might change the world.
2007-02-15 21:02:45 · answer #9 · answered by trypanophobic34 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋