I'd probably choose something for entertainment. Maybe see what a Shakespeare show at the Globe was really like (extremely chaotic from what I've read)
Or see Hendrix play live at Woodstock!
That makes me sound a bit shallow maybe - there's a lot of questions I have about what early Christianity was like before the Catholic church came on the scene, what sort of a ruler Richard III was, similar sorts of dry questions... But given the choice I'd probably want some rowdy entertainment
The big bang, especially if I can record it (don't think that counts as interacting, it's just a more trustworthy version of the recording it into my memory)
Especially since this means we'd get the conditions before it
D-Day, somewhere were the scotsmen landed. Imagine hundreds of planes in the air, thousands of ships, the soldiers take the beaches and behind them a bagpiper is playing.
I would love to see the moment humans first learned complex speech patterns. Yes it was probably a long process. But to see the first complete sentence uttered would be cool as hell. Even better if I could somehow understand it.
The first human being to say something like, "I am grog" and you walk up and hit them with modern day internet slang they're just going to say fuck this and go back to the trees
Can I move around and replay and can I watch at speed multiples like 100x? There are so many land formations I’m interested in seeing formed. From major things like chimney rock to a creek at home that’s 200ft below the hill tops alongside it. If it’s only for one event I choose the end of the last great ice age. If I only get 24 hours real-time I choose observing Hitler the 24 hours before he killed himself.
I’ve grown increasingly convinced Nefertiti served as inspiration for later stories about Helen of Troy, so I’d very much be interested in seeing the arrival of “beautiful woman who arrived” at Pharoh’s court, and the way the only woman ever depicted in the smiting pose in Egyptian history carried herself into a dangerous new environment.
What charm and wit did she possess such that Akhenaten felt the need to both acknowledge in the boundary stelae at Armana that she got everything she desired but to adamantly deny that the idea for the city was hers?
How much of reworking the entirety of Egypt’s religion into a solar cult was the result of her influence, and just how did she see her role in that paradigm?
I have many questions about her that I’d probably have answered with 24 hours of being a fly on the wall observing her and her husband’s interactions.
In later apocrypha Mary was described as being about 12 when she was married into the household of Joseph who was the eldest person in the town.
So in reality you’d probably be watching a child being raped, either by someone in their household before falling pregnant and being married off to someone else before she started showing, or by an old guy who married her, or by one of his older male children after she was taken into his household.
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