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I would have loved to have been a Fur trapper back in the early 1800's who lived the Rockies and lived amongst the Native American tribes and maybe even marry a beautiful Native Lady....
I just love studing the Lewis and Clark adventure......
I would liked to have lived in the old west time. Where I could shoot anyone who came in my house without being in trouble.
The worst time is now. Things are not fun any more compared to then.
The old west would have been hellish. Everyone must have stunk. Can you imagine having a bunch of kids and no disposable diapers? Imagine watching many of your children die from diseases that we cure with a little modern medicine.
The plague wasn't around in the dark ages but in the middle ages. Reset your time machine.
The Dark Ages to which I am referring are the beginning of the Middle Ages.
In 542 A.D., rats on a cargo ship delivered an unseen enemy -- the bubonic plague -- into the heart of the resurgent empire. For three weeks, the death rate in Constantinople was 10,000 per day. The plague decimated up to half of the world’s population..
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The plague continued to show up now and then throughout the course of history. It did some of its worst work much later, in the 15th (the Black Death) and 17th centuries.
Bubonic plague still shows up in the western United States every now and then.
best time for me would have have been
1. 1933-1939 germany
2. 1776-1860 usa
worst times
1.2000-2009 usa
2. 1917-198? ussr
1933-1939 Germany. You mean from the accession of Hitler to power and the rise of Nazi Germany, the beginnings of concentration camps ( first implemented on political prisoners) ? Wow you have a different definition of best than I have obviously !
It depends what you mean by best. Interest wise I would find all historical periods fascinating though I would particularly have loved to be able to observe Mesopotamia, Assyria and all Pre-Columbian civilisations at close range ( but not too close as those were violent times) but to live in I'm afraid the 1980s seem the best.
Advances in medicine, technology was advanced enough but had not completely taken our lives over, and women and human rights were part of people's consciousness.
As an archaeologist I would love to have been a fly on the wall throughout history but to live there ? No way. Slavery, violence, constant war, pestilence, polio, tuberculosis, women being treated like cattle, infant deaths. We have it so easy nowadays.
If I had to chose an era esthetics -wise it would be the Edwardian period ( turn of the 20 th century), but I would have to be a multi millionaire and I would still have grave reservations about women's rights, poverty, and lack of medicine and medical advances. I want to live in a society which has a modicum of fairness about it.
The Renaissance and the age of Enlightenment must have been fascinating periods if you were an artist, scientist, philosopher and thinker but still every day life would have been pretty bad.
The worst ? Europe during the bubonic plague sounds pretty bad and the "Dark ages" possibly.
I think we don't know how good we have it nowadays and tend to romanticise history a tad too much. There is no romance in being a slave, or having all your kids die in infancy.
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Growing up in America in the 1950s was truly idyllic . It was a time of both innocence and prosperity. It ended quite abruptly with the sixties (around 1966) , though.
I would like, I think , to have lived in the forties in a small town somewhere, sort of like It's a Wonderful Life.
I would love to go back in time just to visit ancient Rome in AD 30 or so during the time of Caesar Augustus . It must have been spectacular.
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