Your favorite period in history

1930 USSR; not in Siberia though

The joke is on you OP, I've studied ALL of Alexander the Great's tactics so I would simply go back and do everything he did, except the dying part.

Checkmate

Well I guess being a clerc in medieval Europe doesn't sound too bad. Roman engineer could be cool too

Assyrian soldier during the reign of Tiglath-Pileser III. It'd be cool to help conquer Egypt and all of Mesopotamia.

>your favorite period in history
Early Modern era
>where would you be located
South Africa
>what would you be (realistically) doing for fun?
Being among the first colonisers at the cape, before the british came and fucked everything up

I'm female, so no time other than modern times because I don't enjoy being enslaved.

>Favorite Era

Stone Age (50.000 years ago)

>Where would you be located?

Australia

>What would you be doing for fun?

Hunting Diprotodon (Giant Vombats) and going sightseeing for Megalanias (giant monitor lizard) and Thylacoleos (marsupial lion, looked and behaved similar to drop bear).

>Favourite time era
Tang era China

>where would you be located
Probably somewhere in Annam (Vietnam) province of the Tang

>what would you be (realistically) doing for fun?
I would like to be a general in the Tang's Southern Army. Would be cool to travel to Chang'an now and then and pick up a Chinese waifu and we would have Chinese-Vietnamese kids in Annam.

>not being a cathar novice priestess in 11th century france enjoying high social standart as genders were seen equal
>not being a spartan woman having slaves and all the barafaggot males doing the shitwork
>Not being an upperclass woman in ancient egypt
>Not being a female politician in ancient nabatea or a subject under the sovereign queen of Palmyra
>Not being a female peasant working just as hard as the husband that had been picked for you, having authority over the household and which girls to pick for your son's marriage while husbando worrys about the draft. It sucks. But it sucks equally.
>not being a sacred prostitute for Marduk doing whatever sacred...ok maybe not.

>your favorite period in history

well its gotta be anne franks period

Nothing beats being able to vote, fuck as much as I want without having to worry about being pregnant/burned at the stake, and being able to disregard the idea of marriage.

Right now. Tech > Mores

>Favorite time era
Renaissance/14th or 15th century

>Where would you be located
The Empire of Trebizond

>what would you be (realistically) doing for fun?
I'd like to be a soldier, then when my time is up in the army retire to Theodoro/the Crimea. Set up a nice farm. Go to town and bro out with the Italian/Tatar Merchants, meet a nice girl and start a nice family.

Ideally I'd like to miss the fall of Crimea to the Ottomans in 1475 though.

Solid choice, bud
THANK YOU

Fuck off roastie

>Early US/ Colonial North America
>comfy farm in Virginia or Massachusetts
>reading, tending to my crops and animals, hunting

sounds pretty fucking good desu

Assuming we're confined to the past and not the future...

>your favorite period in history
Bronze Age
>where would you be located
Crete
>what would you be (realistically) doing for fun?
Drugs. Also, introducing the germ theory of disease, magnetic compasses, indian numbers including zero, and optics / telescopes.

Late 12th early 13th century Sweden

I'll probably live as a traveling merchant going from cities to towns to settlements n wherever in between. I'd write avidly about my experience and mostly trade in alcohol, apothecary shit, silver goods because why not, and probably bringing smoked fish inland to places where game is the primary meat source, cause I wanna go to the boonies now n then.
Hiking in this era and place was a particularly popular pass time it seems by journalistic accounts. I'd be doing plenty of that, going for fishing trips, kickin back at innes and festivals makin friends to chill with when I come back around. Id play some foreign stringed instrument from Wales or some shit and, as I said, plenty of writing. Weed doesn't exist in this region yet so maybe I'll save up and build my trade so I can retire in Persia.

>your favorite period in history
500BC
>where would you be located
Getic plains/Dacia
>what would you be (realistically) doing for fun?
Introduce the recurved bow, and traing every fucking getic man , child and woman to fire it from horseback.
Then unite all the getic, dacian and later thracian tribes under one banner and fuck the greek states.

They already had recurve bows, recall that Odysseus used on in "Odyssey" to kill Penelope's suitors. As for persuading them to use bows in war, you'd have an uphill struggle doing this since the Dacians already had a warrior elite who specialised in swords / falxes, you're not going to convince them to drop their ancestral weapon and adopt one from foreigners.

I mean real recurved, reinforced bows, suitable for firing on the horseback.

And the getae were famed for their horses and their raiding tecniques. They were bow horsemen by excellence. Read Ovidius , he wrote about them extesively, while being exiled in Tomis, today Constanta, in Romania.

>your favorite period in history
Late medieval to early enlightenment, so mid 15th to mid 17th century

>where would you be located
Venice

>what would you be (realistically) doing for fun?
Being a merchant, making mad dosh, patronising culture and the arts, and raping Greek qts as we wage war against the Turk

>I mean real recurved, reinforced bows, suitable for firing on the horseback.

Composite recurve bows have existed for thousands of years, they were the dominant weapon of the Bronze Age for use from chariots. The Gataes arn't a horse culture tho, and using their land for horses would be a terrible idea.

>living in a city before the modern age

Enjoy dying of some horrible disease. Cities were absolute deathtraps for most of history, doubly so a malarial swamp city like Venice.

Then why did people build cities?

Because they're essential to higher culture. A central hub for craftsmen and traders, and a place to put all your temples. But cities throughout history suffered from a constantly falling population,and continued to exist only so long as fresh settlers moved there from the countryside. Death rates in cities were absolutely horrific.

I really like the late Bronze age. I'm a graduate student in genetics so I guess I'd be, uh, a scribe? Or maybe an animal breeder.

>your favorite period in history
This.
>where would you be located
Here.
>what would you be (realistically) doing for fun?
This.

>The Gataes arn't a horse culture tho, and using their land for horses would be a terrible idea.
Are you autistic?I am romanian, and i live literally on the Netindava getic ruins, near more than 4 ruins of getic villages and less than 40 kilometres from the getic castle of Helis/ Piscul Crasanilor.

The Getae , along with some roxolani tribes who also lived in these lands and adopted our ways were top tier horsemen .

Read Ovidius before you spew retarded shit.

So people thought so rationally about their society that they decided to build giant slaughterhouses with people dying like flies all the time so they could hold more terretory and also found volunteers all the time?
Somehow nobles managed to hold long family lines in the cities too?
I doubt that.
People were not dumb, noone would have wanted to live in the city if there wouldnt have been phases were sickness was not so prevalent.

Sanitary practizes that allowed getting old in the city must have been a thing, even if they came in wacky forms duch as old testamentarian diet laws.

Based Doge Dandolo approves of your Aegean ambitions

>old testamentarian diet laws

These have zero value as sanitation.

>Somehow nobles managed to hold long family lines in the cities too

Nobles have never lived in cities, they favor rural holdings such as castles and manors. And yes, history is full of nobles and even kings who suddenly dropped dead from a disease,often at the most unfortunate times.

>volunteers

No-one thinks that they are going to be one of the people who suddenly dies of a disease. People from the countryside were drawn to cities because that's where all the money and culture was, same as today.

Other than plagues (of which there were, admittedly, quite a few), Venice escaped most of the hygiene issues faced by most other cities by virtue of not drawing their water supply from the same place they disposed their waste to.

Cities like London and Paris, and pretty much every other major city built on a river (which most were), drew their water from the river, while disposing their waste into it, this is why medieval cities were very dangerous, as outbreaks of cholera and typhus and a whole shitload of other contagious diseases were generally passed through the water supply.

Venice on the other hand can't draw its water from the lagoon, as it is undrinkable, instead they collected it in rainwater cisterns which, while not 100% safe by modern standards, would prevent any large scale disease outbreaks being transmitted through the water supply, thus ensuring that the city was largely free of most of the common diseases.

But yeah Venice had plagues instead because of the merchant traffic, would kinda worry about those, but if I were a merchant and naval captain I'd want to be out at sea most of the time 2bh.

>In the United States in the 19th and early 20th centuries, there was a substantial mortality 'penalty' to living in urban places. This circumstance was shared with other nations. By around 1940, this penalty had been largely eliminated, and it was healthier, in many cases, to reside in the city than in the countryside.
nber.org/papers/h0134

>Demography was in part born out of a persistent preoccupation with trying to
understand the threatening problem of urban health in this increasingly urban age. John
Graunt in his Natural and political observations and conclusions made upon the London Bills
of mortality (1662), held that human hosts gathered in large cities are, after armies on the
move, probably the most unhealthy of collectivities. William Farr, in the 1840s, sought a mathematical formula to express his conviction that the more densely populated a city was, the more unhealthy it was. >Exceptionally large capital cities like London and Amsterdam, which at their peak (c.1700 and c.1800, respectively) stood at 11-12% of their national totals, could only grow by mass in-migration and, in effect, acted as great demographic maws consuming an appreciable fraction of the natural increase in the nation's population
campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/events/richardsmithconference/papers/Szreter.pdf

I think it would be cool to be an average Athenian its height. Any of the Greek states in the Hellenic period, really.

Right now I'm in college, I'd like to be that age around 1980. Enjoy the massive economic growth and become a rich yuppie. Snorting large amounts of cokes and taking cabs back home to my comfy as fuck modern luxury appartment.

Ok I believ now ;_;
God damn it life was depressingly shitty.
Was that just medieval europe+china and levant etc or did the romans and early indians with their advanced aqueducts and waterways suffer the same way?

>average Athenian

So, a slave? And since you weren't born there, you could never be a citizen, at best you'd be a metic.

The higher the population, ie, the more poeple packed in together, the higher the mortality. So small "cities" of a few thousand would be barely more diseased than the countryside, but the great capitals of the various ancient regimes were riddled with pestilence. That said there are steps you can take, such as washing your damn hands and boiling the water before you drink it, but honestly if I were sent back in time I'd avoid cities like the plague they're full of.

I'm assuming from OP's post I'd be a natural citizen. A metic wouldn't be that bad either if you were well-to-do; Lysias had a pretty good career.

Honestly I'd rather be a metic. No right to vote, but then again no duty to take up arms in the cities defence, either. Only real problem would be the excessive taxation and the risk of being expelled / killed by a mob if you step out of line.