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If the time travel rules are that you cannot change your present you return to, then it becomes tourism.
If I was going to erase myself by changing history I'd dream a lot bigger. Constantine I is the oldest definitely-real name that put big things in motion. Would Rome have adopted Christianity anyway? Maybe.
Sinking old Chris Colombus' famous voyage would save an awful lot of lives too, and at the very least postpone the various genocides white people committed in the Americas. I think it would be important to let him get going so that everyone used hia failure to reinforce their reservations about sailing West.
If you go far enough back you get to the point where every human being alive then is either related to all or none of the humans alive today. Even something as minor as causing some random peasant to not have sex and become a monk or something would have massive implications today.