Would you try to preserve the timeline?

I'd bring Muhammad and his army back to Roman times just to see how badly I could fuck up the rest of history.
 
No one is considering the logistics of their actions. You start out as effectively a crazy person wearing weird clothes and have a funny accent/don't even speak the language.
 
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No one is considering the logistics of their actions. You start out as effectively a crazy person wearing weird clothes and have a funny accent/don't even speak the language.
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They're not forced into this at gunpoint the instant they enter the country. They were denied citizenship for doing this, which means they were already somewhere in the citizenship process.
 
I'd go back to back to Ancient Rome and remove any trace of Christianity before any Emperor became tolerant of it. That shit has been a plague that's destroyed a lot of neat ideas/creations.
 
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Pinup Paracelsus said:
I'd go back to back to Ancient Rome and remove any trace of Christianity before any Emperor became tolerant of it. That shit has been a plague that's destroyed a lot of neat ideas/creations.
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As opposed to the Greco-Roman religion, which never attempted to stamp out any other religions ever.
 
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As opposed to the Greco-Roman religion, which never attempted to stamp out any other religions ever.
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Hey, I'm guilty of playing favorites, I consider their religions much more interesting and less wholesome then Christianity. Not that Christianity didn't take in parts of the cultures it ran into, but Romans did a way better job of assimilating other people's gods than Christians did.
 
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I wouldn't change anything. I would document everything. That's the lover of history in me. It would be nice to discover things that are misreported.

Was there a King Arthur and did he reside at Tintagel Castle. Did Brian Boru do the things he is reported to have done.

Lots of mystery's, but lots of speculative answers.
 
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Given how many great works have been lost to time, I think I would try to somehow save/document them and bring them back to the present. For example, the majority of works in the Epic Cycle have been lost except for the Iliad and the Odyssey.

There have also been many Ancient Greek plays lost to time, not to mention possibly having the privilege of observing them performed in the proper era and context.
 
If it’s possible to change the timeline, then I’ve already done so just by being there. Everything I do changes the future. Therefore, I’d go for broke. Invent toilet paper or porn or something and get rich.
 
Rules: you can prevent your parents from existing but it doesn't create a paradox and you continue to exist. You're also stuck in your new timeline and can't return to the original timeline.
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I won't lie here, so pardon the minor powerleveling(if it can even be called such): I tend to be an indoors man. I watch TV, play games, the usual, but I also do stuff like exercise indoors. I dislike going outside unless it's necessary.

So normally, I would say I'd isolate myself. However, going by your scenario and rules... either full "I don't give a fuck" mode, or option 2. Several hundred years means no advanced technology, I'd quickly grow fucking insane. No fear of erasing my own existence means I can fuck the timeline five ways from Sunday and shit will be fine for me in the immediate. And if I'm stuck there I may as well make the best of it. Probably do whatever I can to land into a top position somewhere and run things as smoothly as I can without being some stereotypical asshole for the time I'm in(no witch hunts, no tyranny, just...be a fair ruler or something, but ruthless to my enemies, keep the masses riding my dick). Not even sure where I'd go from there. I could just say as I get older I'd suddenly become a tyrant and enjoy my evilness, but realistically I'm just not like that at heart. Maybe spend my life planning ahead for the future after I die for the civilization I'm in.

Now, option 2 is because I tend to say things that I later find I'm too lazy to go through with. I'm just that kind of person, sadly. So if I just end up going "nah fuck it, I don't wanna do that" option 2 would be...use what charisma I can muster and all my retardedly accurate knowledge of video games and their lore to write what would amount to fanfiction today but several hundred years in the past would probably be lauded as fucking masterpiece works of storytelling, get rich as fuck, and live comfortably while going slightly insane on the inside and using what comforts I can to keep me from just going balls out nuts.

I think I'd slowly go insane no matter which option I pick though.
 
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I would figure out what's the deal with the Voynich Manuscript. If it's a hoax, I'll make a hoax of my own that would baffle generations down the line.
 
Bring back the plans/blueprints/guides to making modern firearms and ammunition and start an Army.
 
My initial goal would be to kill Woodrow Wilson's ancestors, but if I don't have any resources/tech/language skills/etc, I'd probably quickly lower my sights to "not dying or getting horribly mutilated."
 
I'd amass and impress the local populace with my modern day knowledge, build a highly advanced civilization, be real cool with everyone and everything. Fuck a lot of women, like triple/quadruple Gengis numbers, have hundreds of kids, make my blood run for 1000 years. When I die, have a massive tomb with "Who's your daddy?" inscribed in all the languages of the world. Literally be god.
 
Make sure everyone knows I'm from the future, but only speak in riddles, codes, and whatnot.

Be a dick and give cryptic answers, or menacing things, or information that won't be relevant for thousands of years. Either tell Julius Caesar that he'd die surrounded by friends, that he should always remember that words can be daggers, or that Franklin Roosevelt is a cripple.
 
There are a lot of assumptions to be made here, specifically in the realms of paradoxes. There would have to be a way to time travel without interfering with elements that would cause me to not exist, or even just not time travel in the first place.

With that, though, comes the implication that I can either not interfere with anything directly, since arguably any interaction I have with the past could cause a ripple effect that would therein stop me from committing that interaction.

Which means the only way I could interact with anything in the past would mean that the future me (that could possibly not exist or not time travel) is a different me, that would automatically create a new timeline.

I’ll try to simplify this:
1. I go back in time, I cannot touch anything at all without risking changing the course of events leading up to my time travel.
2. This means I can either not interfere with anything in the past.
2a. This could also mean that as soon as I do interfere with anything in the past, it automatically creates a new version of me that it not the one currently time travelling, causing a timeline disruption regardless.
 
balcolm said:
There are a lot of assumptions to be made here, specifically in the realms of paradoxes. There would have to be a way to time travel without interfering with elements that would cause me to not exist, or even just not time travel in the first place.

With that, though, comes the implication that I can either not interfere with anything directly, since arguably any interaction I have with the past could cause a ripple effect that would therein stop me from committing that interaction.

Which means the only way I could interact with anything in the past would mean that the future me (that could possibly not exist or not time travel) is a different me, that would automatically create a new timeline.

I’ll try to simplify this:
1. I go back in time, I cannot touch anything at all without risking changing the course of events leading up to my time travel.
2. This means I can either not interfere with anything in the past.
2a. This could also mean that as soon as I do interfere with anything in the past, it automatically creates a new version of me that it not the one currently time travelling, causing a timeline disruption regardless.
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wow is it just me or did it get nerdy in here
 
I'd warn the jews about the holocaust and convince them that the only person capable of stopping it will be a German man with a funny mustache.
 
Pinup Paracelsus said:
I'd go back to back to Ancient Rome and remove any trace of Christianity before any Emperor became tolerant of it. That shit has been a plague that's destroyed a lot of neat ideas/creations.
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Simular but more forgiving, either fix the milvian bridge or ensure the Julian the Apostate was wearing chainmail that day.
Some other ones spring to mind, shooting hitler, lenin and churchill during ww1. Vladamir the great converts to judaism rather than pretending he's a Roman or he succesfully reforms the Slavic pagan faith. Printing press gets invented during the Cathar heresies rather than the Protestant reformation. The plague never hits Athens during the Peloponnesian War. Harold dodges that goddamn arrow during hastings. Spend a couple of days talking through one of the native American nations through metal work and around the 9th century.

I'd rather re-roll the dice than fix the game, lets see how the fucking wrong side of history cunts chew on that.

I'd also love to take Saint augustine and Emperor justinian for a tour of history to see the look on his smug faces.
 
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