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Ainsley McTree posted:Sort of the original t.A.T.u I dunno, how dead gay and Greek are they?
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Apr 20, 2017 04:47
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fantastic in plastic posted:I'm imagining an ancient musical resembling Hamilton, except it's about Cicero. Written a guy who Catullus stuffed into a trash amphora.
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Apr 20, 2017 05:03
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I thought high quality glass making would be the best. With lenses you could make microscopes and telescopes, and use those tools to help teach early modern biology and physics. You could also make other useful tools like chemistry sets and thermometers. Plus, they could trade the glass for foreign products, since it was already one of the only things the East imported anyway. Ooh, gears would be good too!
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Apr 20, 2017 05:45
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Nitrocellulose and absolutely nothing about metallurgy or firearms manufacturing. Just guncotton, see what they make of it.
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Apr 20, 2017 05:50
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AriadneThread posted:now i'm wondering, what idea or superstition could you introduce to best muck-up future human development? Scientific racism. The one good thing about Roman/Greek slavery was it was race blind. Get the idea that part of humanity is doomed by birth to be chattel, that far back in history, and poo poo gets dark pretty fast.
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Apr 20, 2017 13:23
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LOL at all you that would want to advance the tech in the mediterranean and increase the power of their rich and elite. I'd bring chem weapons and gently caress their poo poo up. E: No need to learn latin or greek. Fo3 fucked around with this message at 14:46 on Apr 20, 2017 |
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Apr 20, 2017 14:42
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We did this before and I will repeat what I said then, Brass/Bronze cannon, and arquebuses. Tech existed at the time and simply was not put together.
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Apr 20, 2017 15:38
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WoodrowSkillson posted:We did this before and I will repeat what I said then, Brass/Bronze cannon, and arquebuses. Tech existed at the time and simply was not put together. Same. Also, if I travelled back to the 1910s, I would give Hitler nukes
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Apr 20, 2017 15:42
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Changing my answer to anime. Uguu Scipio-chan ~
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Apr 20, 2017 15:42
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I would introduce memes to roman society.
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Apr 20, 2017 15:47
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Syncopated posted:I would introduce memes to roman society. Priapus needs not your 21st century assistance.
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Apr 20, 2017 16:11
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Syncopated posted:I would introduce memes to roman society. 
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Apr 20, 2017 16:29
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I'd bring cocktails and tiny umbrellas, the most underrated modern invention.
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Apr 20, 2017 16:38
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Marxism.
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Apr 20, 2017 18:02
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Bring a gun and stop some stupid assholes from killing Archimedes. Or Ceasar.  Or maybe just a cart full of modern grains. Super wheat and potatoes for everyone, 
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Apr 20, 2017 18:11
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Grand Fromage posted:Changing my answer to anime. You monster!
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Apr 20, 2017 18:17
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I'm having a hard time imagining any goon being taken seriously there, unless being able to blow poo poo up
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Apr 20, 2017 18:19
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I'd give them time travel
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Apr 20, 2017 18:20
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JaucheCharly posted:I'm having a hard time imagining any goon being taken seriously there, unless being able to blow poo poo up Hey now, a 2m tall germanic type would fetch a decent price.
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Apr 20, 2017 18:22
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Jamwad Hilder posted:You guys are ruining my vision. "Egyptien Cats" the Forum musical.
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Apr 20, 2017 18:25
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The most useful thing you could go back and introduce for the purposes of modern historians, would surely be either voice recording or photography. Sure most of the output would be broken, lost, or copied too many times so you can barely make things out, but it's better than not having either to document how things really were until the 19th century.
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Apr 20, 2017 18:26
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Egypt would have loved cat memes
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Apr 20, 2017 18:25
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Ainsley McTree posted:Egypt would have loved cat memes What if their hieroglyphics were actually memes?
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Apr 20, 2017 18:28
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Lives of famous whores ofc.
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Apr 20, 2017 18:30
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Apr 20, 2017 18:31
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I would bring the Romans cricket. Surely with the foundations of team work and good sportsmanship Romans would develop the kind of strong moral nature that made the British empire great and would prevent the collapse due to later decade. That or I'd totally write the Grapes of Wrath in late republican Rome and hope it survives to cause future historians problems.
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Apr 20, 2017 18:51
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I would bring AIDS.
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Apr 20, 2017 18:57
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MrNemo posted:I would bring the Romans cricket. This match has been going on for almost as long as Cicero's last speech. 
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Apr 20, 2017 18:58
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Cyrano4747 posted:I would bring AIDS. You already brought it to this thread and it was no gift.
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Apr 20, 2017 18:59
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Dalael posted:You already brought it to this thread and it was no gift. Bolivians and Atlantians dance like this
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Apr 20, 2017 19:22
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I thought we'd shifted to "how do we gently caress the past up the worst?" I'm pretty sure a modern sexually transmitted virus with a high mortality rate and long dwell time between infection and death would pretty well gently caress over the ancient world.
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Apr 20, 2017 19:26
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Can't be worse than another lovely religion.
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Apr 20, 2017 19:28
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Bubonic plague only came around in 600 AD or so and that one seems like a good candidate for biological warfare against the roman state (since that's apparently what we're talking about now?)
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Apr 20, 2017 19:32
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Cyrano4747 posted:I thought we'd shifted to "how do we gently caress the past up the worst?" I dunno, it seems like AIDS in particular would be something that'd have a hard time spreading into a lot of different sections of ancient society (who's the farmer out in nowhere going to get it from, for example?). And part of what allowed AIDS to spread so much was that people in the early stages of AIDS in the modern world had some form of effective treatment to keep them alive against the various opportunistic infections, which the ancient world doesn't have. Tons of people who got HIV would still die anyway later before the proper anti-HIV drugs we have now were developed, but they did live longer than in the ancient world, and thus allowed it to spread farther and faster. Combine that with how there's always plagues and diseases sweeping around, and the HIV infected in an Ancient Rome or whatever are much more likely to die before they can spread the disease to anyone else.
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Apr 20, 2017 19:34
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fishmech posted:I dunno, it seems like AIDS in particular would be something that'd have a hard time spreading into a lot of different sections of ancient society (who's the farmer out in nowhere going to get it from, for example?). And part of what allowed AIDS to spread so much was that people in the early stages of AIDS in the modern world had some form of effective treatment to keep them alive against the various opportunistic infections, which the ancient world doesn't have. Tons of people who got HIV would still die anyway later before the proper anti-HIV drugs we have now were developed, but they did live longer than in the ancient world, and thus allowed it to spread farther and faster. Eh, I'd argue that even totally untreated AIDS kills you slower and has less obvious signs of infection (as well as less debilitation) for the first few years at least of the illness. The way it spread like wildfire through Africa even before the various charities got in there to start handing out medicine is an illustrative example. You do have a good point about the rural population, but then gutting the cities and forcing western europe to de-urbanize 600 years early is going to lead to some pretty interesting things.
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Apr 20, 2017 19:48
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Anime to Ancient Japan.
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Apr 20, 2017 19:51
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Grand Fromage posted:Changing my answer to anime. Notice me, erastes~
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Apr 20, 2017 19:58
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A special printing press that can only print manga will revolutionize the ancient world
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fishmech posted:The most useful thing you could go back and introduce for the purposes of modern historians, would surely be either voice recording or photography. Sure most of the output would be broken, lost, or copied too many times so you can barely make things out, but it's better than not having either to document how things really were until the 19th century. Know what would be super loving rad and make a big difference for modern historians? To introduce the methodologies and practices of of modern historians, archivists, librarians, and archaeologists.
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