# If you could spend a day in ANY past civilization... **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 5, 2017, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-spend-a-day-in-any-past-civilization/795582 "2017-09-05T19:18:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Last\_Glacial\_Maximum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bc79bd/32.png) [@Last\_Glacial\_Maximum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Last_Glacial_Maximum)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2017, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-spend-a-day-in-any-past-civilization/795582/41 "2017-09-09T23:21:48Z")
After the Last Glacial Maximum in Europe, I would love to spend a warm Spring day watching different herds of mega fauna migrate… . ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2017, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-spend-a-day-in-any-past-civilization/795582/42 "2017-09-09T23:50:46Z")
The middle of the Aztec Empire at its height, with not only all my diseases intact, but a few more added in as well. Make me like Xander during “Pangs,” with the smallpox and the syphilis and all the rest. Make me _very_ contagious. Then cure me upon my return. I fucking hate the Aztecs and would gladly wipe them from history. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2017, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-spend-a-day-in-any-past-civilization/795582/43 "2017-09-10T00:02:45Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > The middle of the Aztec Empire at its height, with not only all my diseases intact, but a few more added in as well. Make me like Xander during “Pangs,” with the smallpox and the syphilis and all the rest. Make me _very_ contagious. Then cure me upon my return. > > I fucking hate the Aztecs and would gladly wipe them from history. Look, hey, just because when they said “eat your heart out” they MEANT it… ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2017, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-spend-a-day-in-any-past-civilization/795582/44 "2017-09-11T13:36:59Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > The middle of the Aztec Empire at its height, with not only all my diseases intact, but a few more added in as well. Make me like Xander during “Pangs,” with the smallpox and the syphilis and all the rest. Make me _very_ contagious. Then cure me upon my return. > > I fucking hate the Aztecs and would gladly wipe them from history. You won’t kill just them, though, those diseases will spread far beyond their [tiny](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_Empire#/media/File:Aztec_Empire_1519_map-fr.svg) Empire - you’ll now _solely_ be responsible for the depopulation of the Americas - just for 50-100 years less Aztecs? I mean, sure, the sacrificing and all that, but they were hardly unique in that regard. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2017, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-spend-a-day-in-any-past-civilization/795582/45 "2017-09-11T14:18:07Z")
Well, worry less about your own diseases and more about theirs. You have no resistance to smallpox or the plague (Europe) or any other diseases they might be used to. You’re also not a bucket of parasites either, though you’re likely to pick up plenty by being there. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-spend-a-day-in-any-past-civilization/795582.md?page=2)