History - What would have you made different?

[Esuh]

Originally posted by wildWolverine

oh, and I have an Encyclopedia Britannica that says things like "top technicians are currently attempting to design a telephone with buttons instead of a rotary..." and "someday soon man will walk on the moon..."

I have a book called "The wonder of machinery" from 1902

 

[whiskers]

I would love to do a little bit of studying.

Test 1: Tell the French at Crecy to ditch the crossbows for longbows, and show them about the effective ranges.

Test 2: At the Battle of Chang Ban, tell Cao Cao that Zhang Fei is just bluffing on that bridge, and that there is no army past it.

Test 3: Tell Sun Jian to recruit a few more officers before attacking Liu Baoi.
(More officers=Sun Jian leading army from safety, and not getting killed in an ambush by having a boulder land on him.)

Test 4: Give some penicillan to Alexander The Great

Test 5: Convince Attila The Hun to behead the Pope instead of listening to him, and falling back from his conquest of Rome.

Test 6: Try to stop Roger Waters from leaving Pink Floyd for a solo career.

Go back and tell myself not to do any of these things after gathering results.

 

[Amenhotep7]

Test 5: Convince Attila The Hun to behead the Pope instead of listening to him, and falling back from his conquest of Rome.

Ack! No!

Anyways, most historians offer that Attila's troops actually succumbed to malaria.

 

[Gladi]

Bright day

Sometihng for many: I would point out to Roman Emperor what happened to good colon system and advise them to line roads with crucified big farmers who made for themselves independant petty chiefdoms.

Something for country: I would tell with Przemysl Otakar II that he is the most powerful monarch, but it still wise to actually attend the emperor election.

 

[Atlas14]

I would (not that I like the French) tell the French that they were losing thousands of men at Crecy and Agincourt because they were too stupid to adapt to the longbow. How can you be so blind as to send your cocky knights into the deadly fire of the English Longbows. Also the Geneose, talk about worthless mercenaries. I'd tell them to find mercenaries elsewhere, since the French were wusses and the Geneose were fighting old-fashioned warfare at the time.

 

[pomsa]

I would tell JFK not to invade Cuba and send troops to Vietnam.

 

[Dann]

I would convince the Mongols that a land full of riches unimaginable lies just a wee distance beyond Europe, and that they shouldn't turn back just because of the death of some khan...

 

[LOVE_Magiska]

I would use a heavy stone brick to make sure that a certain warmongering Bush never got anywhere near the White House or Washington DC.

Oh, and saving the Library of Alexandria would be nice too

 

[Bozo Erectus]

Id go back to the Garden of Eden and open a McDonalds outlet. God and the Snake would have to open up competing establishments to get Adam and Eves attention. Eventually though my McDonalds would drive them out of business because, all things being equal, people would rather have their food served to them by a human being rather than a disembodied voice and a talking snake.

 

[Bugfatty300]

I would tell JFK not to invade Cuba and send troops to Vietnam.

The first would be pretty easy because there was never an invasion of Cuba to begin with.

 

[HalfBadger]

The first would be pretty easy because there was never an invasion of Cuba to begin with.

Maybe there was and Scott Bakula changed history, but this guy still remembers it the way it really happend.

 

[Bugfatty300]

Maybe there was and Scott Bakula changed history, but this guy still remembers it the way it really happend.

Or maybe he was talking about the Bay of Pigs. I dunno.

There is only one way to find out. Does anybody remember an invasion of cuba in 1960-63?

 

[aaminion00]

I would slap Gavrilo Princip silly before he had the chance to do anything potentially stupid. BAM. Bye by world war one, two, holocaust, communism, cold war, etc. etc.