If you could go back in time and watch -- but not change or interact with -- one historical event, what would it be?

3 years ago by MariaRomanov to c/history

For the sake of the argument, you get to arrive up to 24 hours before the event starts and leave up to 24 hours after it ends.

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DiatomeceousGirth 8 points 3 years ago

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.

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Bizarroland 0 points 3 years ago

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

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