If you were allowed to travel back in time and change one event of history, what would you change and why?

George Washington was a 33rd degree Mason, and head of his local chapter. He laid the cornerstone for the White House in full Masonic regalia. (This is for the ill-informed first person to post on this topic.) --------------------------------------… Now, what would I go bck and change? I would go back to about the year 33 and kill Saul of Tarsus so he wouldn't found a new religion based on a perverted misunderstanding of the Nazorean movement. We'd probably all be Mithraists today, celebrating his birthday on DECEMBER 25, but it couldn't be as big a disaster as Christianity has abundantly proven itself to be.

I will kill all the scientist who made the weapons.

I would have stopped the slave trade and the wrongful import of millions of Africans to America. This country, with slaves, created a society that has never been right, fought it's worst war over it, and continues to have racial strife today due to the import of slaves.

Fun question. I'd stop the burning of the Great Library of Alexandria. In it's time it housed the greatest collection of knowledge from the all over the world. That one king decided that his legacy and his mark in history would be to destroy it is ... beyond contempt. The world would have moved forward much quicker -- and, I believe, insight into our society, religion, philosophy and life standards would have improved much quicker.

9/11

I would like to stop the birth of Hitler. I hope you don't need an explanation to this

I think you may mean the Athenians not the Romans. The Olympics started in Athens, Mount Olympus after which they were named was the supposed home of the Greek Gods. The Colosseum in Rome hosted many kinds of games, chariot racing and gladiators come to mind also the throwing of the Christians to the lions, I would try to prevent the birth of Adolf Hitler. Why? Isn't it obvious? 6 million people would not have been killed and World War II need not bave happened.

I would like to travel back to the middle ages and prevent the religious authorities from harrassing scientists like Galileo and Copernicus. If they had been free to do their stuff without persecution, science would be a few hundred years more advanced by now. The Internet would have been invented in the 1700s, probably. And religion would be long dead. Incidentally, the religious authorities are still up to their tricks today, denying evolution theory and trying to block stem cell research. So maybe we don't need to travel back in time to make a difference.

I will make sure I win the lottery (100.000.000 $) couple weeks ago by filling out the right numbers!