i'd write everything shakespeare did before he did
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I've always wondered about this kind of theory. If I stole and published Harry Potter before JK Rowling will it be as successful? If I do the beatles' songs before them will they be a hit?
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Bring a time machine with you and teach ancient Egyptians how to use it
I'd love to see Socrates as modern day politician
Killing Bill Gates. It would be a weird timeline, maybe Microsoft would still exist, but in a different shape.
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I would go back in time and arrange Genghis Khan to have a better father.
I'd bring a universal encyclopedia to the mesopotamians.
Teaching Abraham Lincoln how to do egirl makeup and being a femboy.
Isreal
It would be fascinating to go back and prevent monotheism from taking off. See what happens.
Back in 1948
"So we're all agreed, we give the jewish people this land over here and we force the people who live there to go live over there!
::Touching grass busts down the door::
"NO! Thats a stupid idea!!"
"Arrest the anti-semite!"
And the time traveller spends the rest of his life in jail while people slowly realise he was right.
Ending the first living cell on earth. If we are alone in the universe, preventing life from forming would do the most to change the timeline.
By doing that you would leave behind so many new and much more complex cells (modern bacteria, yeas, maybe even spores) You would probably boost evolution by millions of years!
I wonder how much difference one Stinger SAM would have made at Blair Mountain in 1921.
Bring the secrets of caravel making to the Phoenicians/Carthaginians some 50 years before the first Punic wars. Maybe also some scribbles of the coast of Africa and the best winds to reach America.
Jesus. Not white, on Drugs, probably a mushroom