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Vesayen
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By the way just curious, who else here has thought about this before lol?
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Capt Dizle
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I would take back as much Viagra as I could carry. It would be more valuable than gold and would promote love, not war.
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Sonic
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Vilnius, Lithuania
Dec 2001
time: 07:22
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Well, I'll answer this seriously...
I would take two huge bags full of things to both hands. The following would be inside:
Machine-gun with much ammo (because people already used to change metal forms at a time, I think someone would make me more ammo if needed)
Gunpowder, some blueprints of cannons - would try to build ones
Geological maps of locations from current world
Some food and drink to use until I'll found a shelter
Many pictures from current days
A laptop and lots of batteries
Probably many blueprints of hydroplants - I doubt I would be able to build one, but with the help of people - probably.
Obviously many science books about creation/working of now "simple" things like pistol, lightbulb, etc.
I'd join Lithuanian Great Duchy with a hope of becoming a general and probably conquering many lands.
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Vesayen
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What I would do.........
Bring a laptop and a solar charger for it, you could easily fill a lap top with enough info for most of our modern technology, how to build it etc.........120 gigs and more is possible to fit into a laptop, and if its just word documents, you could fit millions of them........
The laptop would also hold the entire history of the world(from before then and after).
I'd take a semi automatic weapon, a sniper rifle. I'd go in full bullet proof, armor piercing round resistant body armor.
I'd go to portugal, fill the king in on who I am etc...and offer to take over the world, and cut him in on it with his help.
(Pick Portugal because it had a huge fleet, the best explorers in the world, and also scientifcally advanced compared to its european neighbors)
We'd impliment stolanistic 5 year programs to bring portugal technolgocically up to where we are today, I think a semi automatic and a sniper rifle taking out a 100 people would be enough to convince the king.
Conquer my way up the western coast of europe, hop to England. Now the heavy duty manufacturing starts. England has more natural metals then any other western European country. Before we'd just be using firearms which were more advanced then the 1400's, but nothing like what we have today. With the excess of metal that could be gotten from britain we'd start making heavy duty armored vehicles, tanks etc...also start working on modern day rifles.
Sweep east, taking the middle east(oil).
All these conquests so far would be pretty easy, most would be surrenders, as when the enemy can shoot 10x as far as you, and 100x more acuratley you really cant fight them.
Expand the armored divisions, roll over the rest of europe, eurasia and russia.
When I get to Africa and Aisa the casualties would increase alot, they'd proboally resist a hell of alot more then the europeans/middle eastern people.
Hop over to America, help the tribes which made up the irquio(sp?) nation take over the hemisphere and set them up to govern it for us.
On every step on the conquest I'd give the conquered land medicines, agriculture and sanitation techniques and other technologies to make them WANT to be in my empire.
Some ancient empire builders did their best to make their new vassals actually like them, to ensure their loyalty. Antibotics and refrigeration would go a long way to help.
I figure I could have the entire world conquered in 40 years or so.
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Sonic
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Vilnius, Lithuania
Dec 2001
time: 07:22
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That's why I'd go to Lithuanian Great Duchy - we were pagan at a time, so, no inquisition/which burnings. And Wizards were respected much.
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Inverse Icarus
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flying too low to the ground
May 2001
time: 00:22
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quote:
Originally posted by Vesayen
Heres a wierd hypothetical I was thinking about, its a serious question though, so answer it as such.
Your about to go back in time to say the year 1400 AD, somewhere in europe(you can change the location if you want), you can only bring back with you the clothes on your back, and what you can easily carry in both hands.
What do you bring with you?
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Rambo gear. and the blueprints to build more of them, on a laptop, with the entire current internet stored on the HD. a solar powered battery charger.
start my own kingdom (preferibly in the Americas) with my magical boomsticks. Prepare my minions for the oncomming armies, and send Europa packing.
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Knowing this forum, its knowledge/opinions of politics history and science, I think the responses will be interesting to say the least.
Edit: I thought it was obvious but its not  . What would you do/bring to allow yourself to rise to a position of power? |
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