time era question?

Question

If you could have been born in a different time era, in which would you have rathen been born?
I would have preferred to be part of high Society around the Victorian Era, but then the Roman Empire might have been good too.

Answer 1

Of all the eras, I am fascinated with Medieval times.

But its sounds like a romantic idea, but they were brutal times. Anyone would like to be high society because up to that time poor people suffered a lot . Look at history and see how peasants lived. I often think about illness and sickness. They did not have even tooth paste. A women could die of vaginal itch because there was no medication for yeast infection. Imagine kidney stones, cancer, tooth ache and so on.

Answer 2

If forced to live in a different era, I would probably choose to be American, living in the early 19th Century, when the country was still expanding and new cities and communities were being created overnight.

It's amusing how people fantasize about living in alternate periods. In fact, although in many of these periods, it would have been fairly cushy to be an aristocrat, the vast majority of people were commoners who lived in grinding poverty and ignorance. If you lived outside a major city before the 16th Century or so, you probably would never have learned to read, but you wouldn't care because you likely never saw a book in your life. If you were a woman, upper class males could often rape you with few or no consequences, but the good news is that since you bathed once a year or less and worked like a dog seven days a week, you were probably so smelly and worn out they wouldn't be tempted. If you lived in a major city, the stench would be incredible. City streets smelled like open sewers - mostly because city streets were open sewers. Disease was constant, medicine was pure superstition, and you had to beat the odds just to live to puberty.

I'll take the boring old 21st Century, thanks.

Answer 3

I probably will go back to 5000 years ago which the Indian civil developed.

A book about the Indian civil says that only Indian people were more peaceful at that time than others like chineses or Sumerians; this is why they had weak military....

Answer 4

Well, if you can go forward or backwards, I'd have to say I would've liked to have been born in the distant future, when travel to other star systems ala Star Trek and other sci-fi stories show as commonplace as taking a vehicle today.

Sure, past civilizations may have had interesting stuff, but I wanna explore the galaxy :)

Answer 5

I would have liked to have lived during the great expansion of the USA. during the time period of mid1800's.

I probably wouldn't have lived long however because I would like to have been a photographer back then when photography was new. The chemicals used, mainly mercury would have most likely burned my lungs out but I would have taken some fantastic photos. Through out the west.

Answer 6

I would choose during the 1910s