>You wake up in Byzantium, Roman Empire in 27 AD
>You are a rich Roman Merchant fully fluent in Latin, Greek, Parthian and Celtic. >You're fully knowledged in how Merchantry works with 20 years experience.
What do?

Build a big port, try to get my city to become a trading hub between east and west. Maybe invest some money into seeing if Crimea can become a breadbasket. Other than that get money, grow fat, lazy, and live a good life.

>>17817588 (OP)
Build a fleet of ships sail west and discover the Americas 1500 years before anyone else

>>17817588 (OP)
And just how exactly would you have learned Celtic in 27CE? that would have been incredibly rare in Byzantium

>>17817642
You probably wouldnt be able to conquer them though
The spanish conquest went so smooth because they had guns

I fund and invite the Huns to destroy Rome from within

Dont invite catholic in

>>17817784
>27AD
>Catholics

Retard

>>17817642
Colonizing South Africa or Australia would be a better choice for a Roman.

>>17817588 (OP)
I hurry down to Judea, to the town of Nazareth, and hire some random Samaritan bandit to murder the carpenter known as Yeshua.

The future of Rome being thus secured, I set up shop in Alexandria or Damascus and make my fortune shipping incense and spices throughout the Mediterranean.

>>17817588 (OP)
why 27 AD? that seems pretty random

Go to the River Jordan to witness the Baptism of Jesus

>>17817588 (OP)
prevent the christianisation of rome by any means necessary

>Rich Romans screw over their own fellow citizens and hire foreigners to constitute the Roman Army
>blame the Christians for this
>Rome falls
>Muh Christians

>>17817588 (OP)
Die of Typhoid

>>17817949
blessed

>>17817588 (OP)
Marry a cute Persian woman

>>17817642
Yknow even Columbus knew that the voyage by itself would be worthless and the Spanish crown had no interest in enslaving the natives of hispaniola. Thats why he dragged them into it by leading his own operation and making enough of a profit so that he could have colonists lobby to continue enslaving the natives.

Likewise I doubt rome would be interested in this expedition for similer reasons, many more reasons even. As their were no trade routes to secure through the Atlantic and no great civilization to conquer and also run at this time. In retrospect there was really no better time to colonize the new world for europe then the 16th century.

>>17817949
Probably the best way to cement your name and legacy in all of history is to thoroughly document the life of Jesus Christ. Maybe even play a role in his trial and execution, not many historical figures that sharing the same time and location gets you scholars studying everything about you.

>>17817588 (OP)
Go down to Jerusalem, kidnap and murder a local jewish doomsday preacher Yehoshua mi Natzrat, dump the body in some remote river too so his followers don't find it
Afterwards enjoy a chill wealthy Roman life, fuck your wife, fuck your slavegirls, sire sons, climb the cursus honorum a bit but not too much - stay at the local level
Commission a tomb and statue with funny text when I die to hopefully baffle archaeologists 2000 years later

>>17817588 (OP)
Which venereal diseases would say, 8-10 prostitutes during a single continuous 48-72 hour exposure (simultaneous), be likely to pass to chap?

>>17817588 (OP)
I think I would do a lot of writing. Go to the Levant to find Jesus and write a life/gospel on him so there is an testable primary source on the man. Other things I would want to write on is a sort of ethnography on the peoples of the world, like with the native Anatolians or the local myths and legends. A travelogue if I ever make a journey to Parthia, India or even just in the Empire itself. I don't think there is much to do with writing a history or poetry because this is the one period to live in which is about as well documented as it can get. Maybe a history on the Parthians?
I guess I'd also try to write on my own ideas of political thought, society, science and the like. At the very least I'd want to try to invent a printing press so I could get my stuff out for people to read even if it's just by donating it to people I know and libraries. Really what I'd want to do is just write for posterity, so many things we don't know today can be known thanks to preserved writings.

>>17818595
Just buy a child slave and rape it, like a normal Roman.

>>17817642
You don't have any boats or sailors that can handle a trans-atlantic journey.

>>17818707
He can just go the other way to the America's west coast

>>17817588 (OP)
Fund a mercenary army to kill the jews.

>>17817588 (OP)
Have a beer. Make some friends. Gang up on some italians and take their stuff.

>>17818227
Recruitment for the Roman army at no time was done by rich people hiring citizens or foreigners.

>>17818707
Folks crossed the Pacific on rafts. I imagine roman ships would do just fine.

OP has reminded me that Byzantium wasn't founded by Constantine.
Useful reminder

>>17819799
The city?
Byzas was a thracian city. The word means male goat, and its a personal name known from thracian grave inscriptions.

>>17818594
>Afterwards enjoy a chill wealthy Roman life, fuck your wife, fuck your slavegirls, sire sons
>Romans fucking their wives and girls in general
Does not compute

>>17817588 (OP)
Become an inventor
>Invent Printing Press
>Invent calculus
>Revolutionize healthcare through germ theory, penicillin etc... and probably prevent the antonine plaague
>Make guns which would basically nullify the threat of nomadic steppe civilizations.

One thing I would definitely not do is enter into politics, I would almost certainly end up dead, I'm too unfamiliar with the world and scheming required to succeed as a politician

>>17819849
>Invent Printing Press
The Romans be like: LOL reading is for people who give head to their wives.

>>17817588 (OP)
Modern knowledge of geography is OP. It's literally god-tier.
Being able to 'predict' the world and where everything is will make your name known to Augustus very quickly, and you'll probably have a huge budget.

Through your contacts and riches, Byzantium will become a Venice-tier state with ridiculous wealth.

Rome's immediate concern IIRC is btfo'ing Germania. Sailing up the Dnipro/Bug/Vistula with a fleet and legions, and pincering them will probably result in European domination.

Once Augustus takes the European peinsula, Byzantium willl then be free to become a powerhouse whch pushes east. Again, knowing the world map will allow you to run rings around Persia.

>>17817588 (OP)
use all my resources to stalk and kill rabbi yeshua early on and save europa from christcuckoldry

In high school a female teacher was swarming about how much she liked "Istanbul" after visiting so I teased her and told her the city is called Constantinople. She mocked me that I might as well call it Byzantium.
Was that a good rebuttal or cringe?

>>17817588 (OP)
bugger some twink

>>17819882
Think you got btfo in all fairness.
Should've shown more interest and got invited on an ''''educational trip'''' with her next time.

>>17819901
idk man, Turkey is save for women but for underage white twinks its dangerous there and I am not wearing a burka.

I would abandom my family and explore the untouched pre-industrial nature.
Also, die horribly to some wild beast.

>>17819926
>Also, die horribly to some wild beast.
The Turks haven't arrived yet, though.

>>17819937
Latinx manlets everywhere though

>>17819882
You got BTFOd

>>17819885
I'd bugger this guy