What would you do
if you could
travel back in the pa
st? How would
you live, what would
you like to wear
and is there anything
you would
change about the w
orld then?
SNAKE CHARMER!
e I would want to meet
If I could go back in tim
was good at inventing
the famous Al-Jazari. He
kind of invention. He
things. Pistons were his
ars ago I think. It would
lived more than 600 ye
rtable then with no
have been very uncomfo
puters or television!
electricity or cars or com
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t electricity and get
I would tell him all abou
drives itself. We might
him to invent a car that
He would be the only
even invent a computer.
derstand. There’d
D
one clever enough to un
al
nic
ha
ec
m
e
us
ca
Al-Ja
hardly be any crashes be
es. He’s
ak
ist
m
e
ak
m
lly
ua
us
foun
devices don’t
mechanical
es
ak
m
at
th
ow
kn
I
e
d
rinking
the only on
ence. It
er
diff
big
a
e
ak
m
d
ul
to hav
devices. It wo
as well. It
st
pa
e
th
in
le
op
pe
e
th
som
would help
were actually
rs
ca
re
fo
be
rs
ca
em
th
would give
and
I would wear
s!
ou
m
fa
be
d
ul
wo
I
d
invented. An
very surprised!
a suit and he would be
Alexander, 6