Well we don't know that, since everyone who's traveled back in time to conduct that experiment was immediately burned as a witch.
You are incorrect. The period of the witch trials lasted only a couple of centuries, and was almost over by 1766 in European culture.
Besides, if you have time travel it is just as easy to take people from 1766 to year 4825, or whenever time travel is invented, disarm them, and show modern technology to them, than it would be to send people from 18,246, or whenever time travel is invented, back to 1766 to display future technology.
Polteageist said:
I wonder why the official language of the Empire still isn't Latin. Or is it just because we needed to have the confusion between "sun" and "son", and "sol" and "filius" don't sound alike?
They say Rome had no sun worshippers, but they were pagan. Didn't they have a god of the sun? Apollo for instance?
So some of Merrik's men are still alive among the population of the Empire? And are we going to do anything about rescuing them?
Kirk looked pretty good in that slave shirt. I wonder if they sell those.
It was cool to see two moons in the sky when they beamed down and then see two moons when they showed the Enterprise orbiting the planet.
I feel like Spock should have been able to beat his opponent much sooner. He's had Starfleet training and superior strength.
"They threw me a few curves." Yes, she did have some.
It's actually not clear whether Kirk did sleep with the slave girl.
Shooting a jail cell lock with a machine gun seems really really dangerous for all involved to me. I'm not even sure it would work.
So the Empire in every way is like 1960's Earth, but they have no nukes. Is that because they didn't have a WWII and so no motivation to develop them?
I'm no historian, but they're making it sound like Christianity made the Roman Empire peaceful which doesn't seem to ring true to me.
Possibly Latin is the main language of the Empire and English is the language of this province. Roman soldiers and administrators would know Latin while locals would speak local languages like, for example, Greek and Aramaic in most of the near east. So most people in this province somehow speaks modern English.
Proconsul Claudius Marcus would seem to be the governor of the province, judging by his title, while first citizen Merickus would seem to be the first citizen of one of the cities in the province.
Ancient Rome did have sun worshipers. The Greek gods Apollo and Helios were worshiped by some provincals and Romans, while there was the ancient Roman god
Sol "The Sun". Emperor Elababalus tried to make the Syrian sun god Elagabalus the main god of the empire, and later emperors did make
Sol Invictus the principal imperial god before Christianity.
