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 Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 5:26 pm
If you could take one thing back to the Roman Age, what would it be? (Knowledge, Philosophy, Technology...etc)
Why would you pick what you did?
Titanium Alloy. Its light, and is very defensive.
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Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 5:37 pm
Cocain; the hedonistic swine would adore me.
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Galad Aglaron Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 3:44 am
Thomas More's Utopia. Get them all spouting the ideals of a Utopian society then go back to the modern day and see what's happened.
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Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 5:08 pm
I think it'd be fun to see what would have happened if the Romans had been drenched in eastern philosophy.
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Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 11:56 pm
Blackpowder muskets (probably a flintlock).
Teach them how to use blackpowder and stuff like that and then see if they still ruled the world (or how many more traces of Roman culture) is around.
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Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 6:16 pm
boleromo I think it'd be fun to see what would have happened if the Romans had been drenched in eastern philosophy. Take back a copy of "The Entire Collected Works of Confucius" and see what happens. xd On second thought, maybe I'd send back a copy of the UN Human Rights charter. Give it to just the right member of the Senate and I could spark off a Golden Age.
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Galad Aglaron Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 8:55 pm
ipods and puppys :3 Nah
I would probably bring back knowledge.
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Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 2:52 am
Galad Damodred boleromo I think it'd be fun to see what would have happened if the Romans had been drenched in eastern philosophy. Take back a copy of "The Entire Collected Works of Confucius" and see what happens. xd On second thought, maybe I'd send back a copy of the UN Human Rights charter. Give it to just the right member of the Senate and I could spark off a Golden Age. Like anyone follows the UN Human Rights charter...XP Maybe the Romans could enforce it a bit better than the UN itself? XD
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Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 1:30 am
This probably sounds kinda lame, but I wouldn't give them anything.
I believe that history should be allowed to play itself out, and major interference usually has consequences that no one can predict.
But just for fun, I'd bring some modern special effects tech, and some other stuff, pretend to be Zeus (the Romans called him Jupiter I think) and then try to guide the Roman Empire, and see if I couldn't improve it a little.
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Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 4:57 am
I'd take back knowledge.
Not knowledge of technology, but of medicine. Things such as penicillin, and antibiotics.
Other than that I wouldn't want to tamper with it too much.
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Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 2:33 pm
If I had to choose one thing, I'd take back a Macro/Microeconomics textbook. Theoretical knowledge is excellent but imagine what would happen with 2000 years work on economics..! Not to mention all the problems you could have avoided...
On the same line of thought, I'd bring back a good medical textbook.
Of course, if one really wanted to be selfish, you could always choose to bring back an AK47 and a truck load of ammo. Then you could personally ensure that society decided to follow more humanitarian means...by force if necessary...*innocent look*
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Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 3:56 pm
That just made this post for me. XDDD
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Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 4:13 pm
Just one thing?
... Looks like people are naming a couple things each.
Hm.
Thing.. to take back...
Well, there IS the idea of being worshiped as a goddess and thus influencing the known world in a more .. humanitarian bent.
Taking back the knowledge of their own demise would most likely (or not? given the futility of trying to avoid fate..) change the world as we know it today.
Uh... My fiance? Because.. the law has it in for him because of his inability to avoid a fight.. and.. back then, law was.. might makes right.
A light bulb!! How many castles/cities would still be standing because someone didn't leave a candle burning unattended?
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I don't know.. I really don't think I'd take anything that didn't already exist back then. While the idea of being worshiped is appealing.. it's too much like modern celebrity: you can't go and piss without someone recording it for posterity. Trying to change history... I might come back to something vastly more unpleasant than how things are now. Might makes right makes a bully, and I already had to deal with one of those. As for light bulbs: there's something romantic and more intimate about candle-light. It encourages an appreciation for sun, moon and stars.
Nope, not a thing I'd take back.
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Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 3:46 am
Give them a copy of Catch-22, perfectly translated into Latin.
I don't know what effect it would have, but it's a good book. neutral
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Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 8:02 pm
Nasuko-San Give them a copy of Catch-22, perfectly translated into Latin. I don't know what effect it would have, but it's a good book. neutral They'd think it was Sci Fi and their heads would implode. XD
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