The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, sent to Julius Caesar
I see 3 outcomes, in order of least to most in likelihood and excitement:
Julius see's the error in his ways and establishes what essentially is an entirely new politcal system that is so good and just that It would stand today.
Same scenario as above except his grandson grows up to one day claim his rule and reverses everything.
He is killed, and for the exact same reasons as current lore. Either because his arrogance causes him to deny what will happen, or because regardless of any attempt to avoid such an outcome those who sought the power he had would still seek out that same power. Both lessons are fairly important but I think the latter one is often missed in the countless retellings. Power both corrupts and it's one sexy hot bitch.
From what I can tell, the "tyranny" that Caesar was killed for was because he wasn't for the Roman ownership class and was using his power to counteract the huge wealth disparities that existed at the end of the Roman Republic.
Also the aim of the Business Plot against FDR.
If FDR had reacted to that like he should have, the course of history might be pretty different. For one thing, the Bushes might have never gained the power they did.
Agreed.
There should have been a massive purge.
Side question, but would ancient Romans be able to decipher a modern day language from one book? I'd imagine a language with Latin based words might be easy enough but not sure how equipped they were.
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Just translate it into Latin before sending it.
Oh yeah, for sure as an answer to the OP question, but I'm still curious about their decyphering ability
Depends on which modern language we're talking. If it's italian or romenian, they'd likely manage to work that "filthy" latin into "proper" latin. Greek might also work. Portuguese, spanish and french would require a LOT of work with native speakers and I suspect german and english would completely fail, "Why in Jupiter's dangling balls these barbarians keep changing the sound of the fucking vowels????"
Is romenian Italian with a Rome accent? Or do you mean Romanian? Cause if so, it's just as far from latin as French or Spanish. Greek would actually be the best modern language to send back in time, I think. Modern Greeks have issues understanding ancient Greek, but the reverse wouldn't be true, apparently.
Ops, Romanian, yeah. The country name's "Romenia" in Portuguese and I forgot it was different in English
I’d assume they would think it was written by morons and not take a word of it seriously.
He couldn't get himself to read a note an eavesdropper to the conspirators gave him trying to warn him about the attack, I sadly doubt he'd read a whole prophetic book.
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, sent to Julius Caesar
I see 3 outcomes, in order of least to most in likelihood and excitement:
Julius see's the error in his ways and establishes what essentially is an entirely new politcal system that is so good and just that It would stand today.
Same scenario as above except his grandson grows up to one day claim his rule and reverses everything.
He is killed, and for the exact same reasons as current lore. Either because his arrogance causes him to deny what will happen, or because regardless of any attempt to avoid such an outcome those who sought the power he had would still seek out that same power. Both lessons are fairly important but I think the latter one is often missed in the countless retellings. Power both corrupts and it's one sexy hot bitch.
From what I can tell, the "tyranny" that Caesar was killed for was because he wasn't for the Roman ownership class and was using his power to counteract the huge wealth disparities that existed at the end of the Roman Republic.
Also the aim of the Business Plot against FDR.
If FDR had reacted to that like he should have, the course of history might be pretty different. For one thing, the Bushes might have never gained the power they did.
Agreed.
There should have been a massive purge.
Side question, but would ancient Romans be able to decipher a modern day language from one book? I'd imagine a language with Latin based words might be easy enough but not sure how equipped they were.
I miss /r/AskHistorians
Just translate it into Latin before sending it.
Oh yeah, for sure as an answer to the OP question, but I'm still curious about their decyphering ability
Depends on which modern language we're talking. If it's italian or romenian, they'd likely manage to work that "filthy" latin into "proper" latin. Greek might also work. Portuguese, spanish and french would require a LOT of work with native speakers and I suspect german and english would completely fail, "Why in Jupiter's dangling balls these barbarians keep changing the sound of the fucking vowels????"
Is romenian Italian with a Rome accent? Or do you mean Romanian? Cause if so, it's just as far from latin as French or Spanish. Greek would actually be the best modern language to send back in time, I think. Modern Greeks have issues understanding ancient Greek, but the reverse wouldn't be true, apparently.
Ops, Romanian, yeah. The country name's "Romenia" in Portuguese and I forgot it was different in English
I’d assume they would think it was written by morons and not take a word of it seriously.
He couldn't get himself to read a note an eavesdropper to the conspirators gave him trying to warn him about the attack, I sadly doubt he'd read a whole prophetic book.