Alternative If You Could Go Back In Time...

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Merle,

That's great! I haven't watched Jeopardy in over a year. The questions were getting more generic and less challenging.

Given the restrictions, I guess what I would do would be to go through all of the great libraries of the ancient world.

Alexandria, Egypt and Constantinople are the two big ones I have in mind.

Most people probably don't know about how few manuscripts we have of many, many ancient texts. I would look specifically for Biblical manuscripts, books by Democritus (an early atomist who was well regarded, but we don't have any of his works), the dialogues of Aristotle (believe it or not, most of Aristotle's philosophy was written in dialogue form like Plato, in fact, some say he wrote better dialogues than Plato. The works we have now are something like lecture notes), and anything from the presocratic philosophiers (we only have quotes of their works, not any manuscripts).

If I could change history, I would start the industrial revolution in ancient Athens.

I would visit many seasons of Japan before the Meiji period, when the samurai class hadn't been abolished. I could meet the Shinsengumi, Musashi Miyamoto, Murasame, Oda Nobunaga, Masamune, and others. Maybe I might see Jubei Yagyu and Hanzo Hattori the legendary ninja . That would have a higher value than any book of japanese history! I don't know what I would do if I could have videos of real samurai battles and photos of Musashi Miyamoto (he's something like a hero for me ).

Also, I would like to back to my childhood (kindergarten and before), and search for aspie traits on myself (all that I know about my childhood aspie traits is from my parents and other relatives, maybe they haven't told me some important things). I would have real evidence of AS if I could take photos and video of that episodes of my life.

Could I use my own time machine to go back in time with a machine gun, thousands of rounds, and some explosives to take over all the tribes of early man and rule the world and send technology forward thousands of years early, and then use your time machine later to observe myself doing this without changing anything?

I would stay at home and b mum instead of working all the time.