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I understand, I just would have liked to see the entire thing firsthand and find out if it was for land, as I suspect it was, or that whole Paris/Helen mess.

Troy was the most robust economic powers of the Third Palacial Age. It sat on the straits of the Bospheries, and controlled all the Scythia-Greece-Ionia trade, and showed a highly advanced gold working and olive pressing mass industry. To have a site like Troy as a tributary city would bring great riches to the conquerer. And most definately was the city destroyed by fire, a broad layer of ash has been found in the fourth layer of the city, at an almost parralell date to when Agamemnon and Nestor would have ruled at Mycenea and Elos, respectively. The initial bumpoff for a war might have been the Paris/Helen thing, but it would have just been a veil for greedier purposes.

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Or! Ancient Troy during the "Trojan War" just to see exactly what happened and why.

You know all the trojans were killed, right?

Oh my, they were? You're so brilliant. I understand, I just would have liked to see the entire thing firsthand and find out if it was for land, as I suspect it was, or that whole Paris/Helen mess.

I mean, I know they were killed. ::Scoff.:: I saw Troy. That was a joke.

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watch who you calling fools, at least we can spell whether

I wrote taht at 2:15 AM, and rainin' has an apostrophe...

Heh, North, you're awesome.

Thirty seconds ago, to meet myself, then have both of us decide to go back in time thirty seconds, making four of us instead of two, making them decide to all go back in time thirty seconds, making eight of us instead of four, and so on, until there are hundreds of us and we can work together to form an intricate terrorist network of identically thinking individuals with the power to carry out whatever we collectively desire. Or we could just pretend to be previously unknown identical centuplets, and get craploads of money through modeling. Think of the potential...we'd be on Oprah in a matter of days and doing cell phone ads in a week.

watch who you calling fools, at least we can spell whether

Fools! What is not provided for is weather or not you would simply be sent back into a random station of society, in a prechosen station of society, or as you as you are ( which would probably get you arressted or killed).

It would suck! Suck!

But what the hell, I would want to be sent back to the Enlightenment, orthe French Revolution so I could participate in the Oath of the Tennis court.

I would like to have lived during the Renaissance. The world was in a period of academic enlightenment, and the art was beautiful!

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Or! Ancient Troy during the "Trojan War" just to see exactly what happened and why.

You know all the trojans were killed, right?

Dont kid yourself, it would suck to live in those times.

The Middle Ages or ancient Celtic times because those eras have always fascinated me. Or a hundred years in the future because I would like to see if we have destroyed ourselves with our wars.

I would like to live during the Prehistoric Era. I would like to do such a thing because I heard that the food was really tasty during that time.

I would have liked to live in the Elizabethan Era. I would have loved to see one of Shakespears plays. (Minus the Black Plauge) I would like to see the differences from then to now.

I would have liked to lived in the 50's. It just looks like it would have been fun. With the music and all.

I would like to live in the future. To see all of the new discoveries. And to see what everything would look like.
-Sunset

yeah sure it would be great if you could live in another time period but think of all the changes it would be for you. I would choose to live in the same time period as i am now it may be hard but it has taught me alot i figured that out yesterday evening after 17 years all the hardships pain and loss. Remember there is always calm after a storm

1920's. I would so enjoy being a jazz singer during that period.

Or the 1800's when all the cool classical stuff was being written.

Ancient Macedonia in the time of Alexander the Great. (That's where Phillip & Olympias were. Er, before he died/was assassinated.) I'd like to meet Olympias. One of the earliest misunderstood women of our time.

Or! Ancient Troy during the "Trojan War" just to see exactly what happened and why.

Or, I'd like to be a teenager right after WWII and live through ALL the decades. 50's, 60's, 70's in the US.

I would've liked to live during the Civil War era, in the South. That world has always enchanted me, for some reason. (no, I am not for slavery or anything like that)

The middle ages as long as I am queen.

Or maybe around 1 AD when Rome had all the cool tech. and the aquaducts and all that...

The old Celtic ages when people still believed in creatures such as the fae. Not that some don't now..

lets assume i would suffer as much wherever that is as much or more than here, beacause thats probably my karma, my nature. I would get as much out of life as i get here, then promptly die. Assuming as much does it really matter where I live? If i was changed by those times, the culture, and thought differently; would it still really be me? and why would I care. No...I won't care any more here than there...I'll stay here