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How would you change history?
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flyingchicken
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No, I was referring to JonathanStrange's post while replying to you at the same time? It is difficult to get things across without telepathy. I need to take a class on it to prevent so much misunderstanding.
In fact, if I could change history, I would make us all telepathic so that we will all benefit from enlightened understanding!
In fact, if I could change history, I would make us all telepathic so that we will all benefit from enlightened understanding!
I would prefer that other people not know what I am thinking in select cases.
Until the missiles rust, or they run out, or . . .
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1:Make the Medieval Europeans better.They invented nothing but Feudalism,Spent there time blaming the Jews and the Muslims for things that they had nothing to do with(The Plague)
2:Give the Jews,Gypsies,Czechs and Arabs a heads up about Adolf.
3:Give the Indians guns.
4:Make it so the Japanese had a gun with a Samurai Sword for a Bayonet.
2:Give the Jews,Gypsies,Czechs and Arabs a heads up about Adolf.
3:Give the Indians guns.
4:Make it so the Japanese had a gun with a Samurai Sword for a Bayonet.
I would take Mohamet aside and tell him about the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Imagine Bin Laden then!
Mowque
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Yeah, this is very untrue...
Japan has been using firearms for nearly as long as Europe has.
LightSpectra
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Okay, here's my serious answer.
If there was only a single thing I could alter, I would go to 1500 AD and tell the European monarchs that they are not going to be remembered fondly for colonization, and they should just stick to peaceful trading and evangelizing with the natives.
If there was only a single thing I could alter, I would go to 1500 AD and tell the European monarchs that they are not going to be remembered fondly for colonization, and they should just stick to peaceful trading and evangelizing with the natives.
North King
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You'll still get native societies devastated. The vast majority of the damage wrought by Europeans was by their microbes, not them.
...which in turn would make expansion something that would be far too desirable to be halted by some dude talking to the kings.
LightSpectra
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Ah, yes, I forgot about that. I don't know why I can't also bring back a whole crate of vaccinations, so long as we're time traveling.
North King
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There you go.
A crate? Nice, you saved one whole neighborhood in Tenochtitlan.
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Pastwatch had the only viable method I've heard: a genetically engineered virus that was non-lethal and conferred immunity to all the major European diseases.
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It would eventually mutate into an unstoppable killing force to remind humanity that it shouldn't play God. Or even time-traveler for that matter.
Winner
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I think you're all missing the point. To prevent WW2, you need to stop WW1 from happening, because that was without question the greatest disaster that has ever happened to Europe.
Without WW1, there would be no WW2, no Holocaust, no Communism in half of Europe, no Cold war and no decolonization (at least not so soon).
The real question is if WW1 could be prevented, or if the nationalism and and trigger-happiness was too strong...
Yes, it could have.
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