If somehow you were transported back 500 years in the past, during the time when explorers were sailing around and exploring North and South America, could you survive in the past?
Explain your answer besides saying yes or no.
2007-09-23 14:34:46 · 6 answers · asked by ryan_runner 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
It would of course be very strange knowing everything that will happen in the future. I would probably be an adventurous person, but I would try to stay out of history's way. It would be interesting for me at least to see and learn about the origins of modern English. I would also like to see the origins of Spanish, as I a student of the language and am interested in linguistics. I'm sure I could survive, but it would be a very different experience. Life would definitely be harder.
2007-09-23 14:41:08 · answer #1 · answered by Bryan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well of course the answer is no. and i will explain why. any one thing you do now, lets say picking up a pencil fast instead of slow will have a large impact on the future. you may say, no! but if you give it thought it is true. lets say you do it fast. that changes the timing of your next event, such as writing down the title of a paper. now since you did that fast your mind would be at a slightly different place as if you had done it slow, so in turn you words will end up quite a bit differently than if had done it slow. shortly, WHATEVER you do now has an impact on the upcoming events.
So now your back in time, interacting with certain people. that slight change in history will affect what those people did and there for who they will meet (possibly a wife?) and will instead do different things and meet different people. a domino affect will soon form, and quite rapidly too. those people will change some one else who in turn change another person or thing. because of these impacts you made just by being seen by a farmer or having talked to a local will change who meets who, and who has what baby. your parents will not have meet, nor you grandparents or even great-great-great grandparents, they will have never been born. so once you go back in time immediately you will not have existed in the future and therefore not at all, in past, future or present.
2007-09-23 21:58:02 · answer #2 · answered by Calder 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope. If I had to be a woman in an oppressive society I would go crazy, I couldn't wear a corset, and I wouldn't eat wild game. I would probably be a peasant anyway and would get killed off by disease or a cold winter. -s
2007-09-23 21:43:22 · answer #3 · answered by Smarks 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, I like camping . but not every day for life. I need my computer and a hot shower and clean clothes. I am a modern woman.
2007-09-23 21:43:04 · answer #4 · answered by Harley Lady 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the ponder this question let me go back 500 hundred years i tell you in 500 years so dont hold you breath
2007-09-23 21:42:58 · answer #5 · answered by sam n 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course. What's the difficulty?
2007-09-24 02:02:15 · answer #6 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋