If you could go anywhere back In time what places would you visit?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_Jesus

Josephus is an often cited but sometimes controversial source.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephus_on_Jesus

The scholarly consensus, not just among "Christian" scholars, is that in some passages he refers to both Jesus and Christians. However, this was written in 93-94 AD, so, about 60 years after the putative death of Jesus. There might conceivably still have been people around who knew him "in the flesh".

Fwiw..."Virtually all New Testament scholars and Near East historians, applying the standard criteria of historical investigation, find that the historicity of Jesus is effectively certain[3][4][5][6][nb 1][nb 2][nb 3][nb 4]although they differ about the beliefs and teachings of Jesus as well as the accuracy of the details of his life that have been described in the gospels.[nb 5][12][nb 6][14]:168–173 While scholars have criticized Jesus scholarship for religious bias and lack of methodological soundness,[nb 7] with very few exceptions such critics generally do support the historicity of Jesus and reject the Christ myth theory that Jesus never existed.[16][nb 8][18][19][20]".

By contrast, the Epistles of Paul are dated to about AD 50-60 from internal references, largely, if I remember correctly.

Tacitus does mention Christians as well.

"The Roman historian Tacitus, in his Annals (written ca. AD 115), book 15, chapter 44.[43]describes Nero's scapegoating of the Christians following the Fire of Rome. He says that their founder was named Christus (the Christian title for Jesus), that he was executed under Pontius Pilate, and that the movement of his followers, initially checked, then broke out again in Judea and even in Rome itself.[44] Some scholars question the historical value of the passage on various grounds.[45]"

You might find the article interesting: it's pretty balanced in its presentation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_Jesus
Thank you Angela. That is very useful.
 
Probably I’d go to the Pre-Colombian Chinook tribe. The Reservation adopted me as my own, despite my ancestor’s involvement with their downfall. It might be worth checking out and preserving the local heritage through time travel.
Mideval England would be a nice place to stay as well, I can help out on the farm. Sure the clothes are dirty but if the village is rural enough I might be able to wash my clothes at a pond or river. :)
 
Gettysburg... I’d make sure the 48th Alabama rolled the flank of the 20th Maine to take Little Round Top. With loss of high ground, Yankees would have retreated giving Lee a victory. With a win at Gettysburg, France and England would have recognized the Confederate Govt of Jefferson Davis.
 
And the U.S. would still have had slavery? That's a good thing? I don't think so.
 
for me it would be 3rd millennium BCE in the middle east , the time where some of ancient empires and kingdoms emerged and mass migration of many Semites occurred
 

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