So if you were accidentally teleported back in time two thousand years?

[Gibsons]

I'd start with empiricism, then invent the printing press, antibiotics, metallurgy, gunpowder. Then conquer the world.

 

[J Heartless Slick]

Originally posted by: Braznor
So what would you do if you find yourself in the past two to three thousand years ago with a fairly adequate knowledge about science and technology (enough to create awesome stuff at that point of time eg. gunpowder, a steam engine etc...

For the sake of simplicit, lets assume you would be able to communicate with the natives in a reasonable manner which would grow better in time.

So what would you become?

A world conquerer?

After a couple of days of being miserable, I would realized that going 2000 years back in time was one of the most incredibly stupid things I had ever done. I would start trying to get back to today.

 

[NanoStuff]

I'd make it my goal to stay alive for 2000 years so I could get a chance to beat the ****** out of the fella who 'accidentally' transported me.

 

[Specop 007]

My first priority would be making antibiotics.

The simple fact is life before antibiotics was cheap. Things we consider a minor annoyance would kill you slowly and painfully back then.

 

[canadageek]

:music:let's do the Time Warp again:music:

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: FleshLight
Die from dysentery

Pretty much.