What period in history would you have loved to go back and see for yourself

[manephelien]

Somewhere in pre-Roman Europe. I've always been fascinated by the Celts.

[Harpo]

Leonardo da Vinci used to put on elaborate performances, with dancers dressed as planets and so forth - I'd love to see those, as well as witnessing that entire world he lived in.

[Cozener]

That reminds me...it would be kinda nifty to go back and see an early Genesis show when Peter Gabriel was in the band.

[Talysia]

I know a few people have mentioned it, but I'd love to go back to Tokugawa era Japan as well. I've been fascinated by the culture for a while, so to see part of the history I've read about would be wonderful.
Coming back to England, though, I wouldn't mind seeing what the first reactions of the people were when chocolate was discovered and brought over here!

[Valko]

I would go back to the birth of every religious prophet and do away with them.
Yes I know it sounds stupid but think of the lives that would have been saved without religious wars, inquestitions and persecution. The scientific advances we would have made without religious doctrines.

[Enadil Moonweaver]

I would love to go back to the roaring twenties, The civil war era for usa **Is a southern girl** Elizabethan era Medival and Rennisance eras.

[The Ace]

I'd like to do garrison duty on the Antonine wall. And leave a few surprises for archaeologists who take themselves too seriously.

[Curt Chiarelli]

Originally Posted by The Ace

I'd like to do garrison duty on the Antonine wall. And leave a few surprises for archaeologists who take themselves too seriously.

How about a bronze Pez dispenser with the likeness of Kirk Douglas as Spartacus on top?

[paranoid marvin]

It's gotta be the time of the dinosaurs - the real Jurassic Park!

[Happy Joe]

Actually go back?... no way.
The languages would be unintelligible, even the olde English linguistic recreations of the English language of a few hundred years ago are almost impossible to understand.
The filth, dirt, disease, slavery, smells, etc. would be truly offensive to our modern senses (and sensibilities). (Wear your wide brimmed hat for a little protection from the second story chamber pot contents (typically flung, into the streets, from windows.))
The lawlessness and abysmal medicine (small pox, polio, tetanus, yellow fever, typhus, any infection and many other diseases) would be killers.
To view history, sure I'd like that, but to actually go there... no thanks!
I'll stay here, or possibly go forward, a bit, in time.

Enjoy!

[pyan]

Yes, what most people mean when the say that they'd like to live in a different era, is that they'd like to be a rich person/noble of that era - this is about the only time in history when life at the bottom of the pile needn't be nasty, brutish and short.

[sergios]

1555 The Netherlands the wars of the religion. To see how brutal fanatic religious people can be and how to stop it from happening again.

[YoYo]

11th-12th century - the Crusades, they've always seemed interesting to me

[deletrix]

I'd love to see the English Regency period, I was borderline obsessed with it as a teen.

[The Ace]

OK, I'd have to admit it, but I'd love to see the 1974 Bay City Rollers gig at the Apollo, or Perth City Hall.