If you could somehow witness the lives or at least certain moments of someone's life in history and understand the languages, where would you go? Who would you see?

These would be my top 5:

1) Plato (approx 350 - 450 BC) - Being able to see ancient Athens is a plus, but Socrates, Plato, Aristotle are notable for questioning everything. Must've been pretty taboo. I'd love to listen to their conversations and learn.

2) Any Confucian Scholar (Qin Dynasty) - I would love to soak in the priceless knowledge and history from the East before Qin Shi Huang destroyed books and killed hundreds of scholars in order to practically re-write the history of China.

3) Ahmad Ibn Faldan (870's -960 AD) - This one was inspired by the movie "The 13th Warrior". Faldan was the Arab ambassador from Baghdad to the north (present day Russia from my understanding) He chronicled his time and adventures with Norse/Vikings.

4)Francis Bacon/Voltaire/Immanuel Kant (The Enlightenment)

I feel like this one speaks for itself. The Enlightenment was one of my favorite periods in history and the writers above were a few of my favorites to read. Especially Bacon. Notable time for the emergence of freethinking/Atheists.

5) James Madison/Other founding fathers - These gentlemen made it their business to separate church and state. These are our people. I would have loved to hear the brainstorming & conversation as they wrote the Constitution.