World History in a Nutshell

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"Okay," began Daniel, standing at the front of the class. "Today, we're going to be looking at the Romans. Or rather, we're going to be discussing them.

There's a handout on your desks.

We're going to be considering a remark made by Napoleon. He said that, "the story of Rome is the story of the world." What do you think he meant by this? How is it that the "western world grew up in Rome's shadow?"

After this discussion was over, he waved at the computers.

"Today's game is Death in Rome. Have fun!"

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Sign in (09/18)

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Re: Sign in (09/18)

[bruiser-in-pink.livejournal.com]

Molly signed in.

Re: Sign in (09/18)

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Broots signed in.

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Cameron signed in.

Discussion on Ancient Rome

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[[ooc: Discuss amongst yourselves and Daniel'll take pings when I get back from work]]

Re: Discussion on Ancient Rome

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"Politics," Cameron replied. "Rome is an example of an empire that grew, conquered and fell apart. I can imagine that Napoleon could relate to how Rome grew from a monarchy, to a republic and finally turned into an empire. He saw for himself how that exact evolution happened in France. I guess he was expecting other countries to follow the example or something."

Re: Discussion on Ancient Rome

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"Well, not being as aware of the Egyptian dynasties, or the Chinese, it would make sense to him that all empires eventually fall," Evie pointed out. "Whereas they endured in very different forms far longer than Rome did. But Rome's influence extended farther in Europe than Egypt's did, and while China's extended just as far, it wasn't a model that Napoleon would have identified with, being a revolutionary and conqueror himself."

Re: Discussion on Ancient Rome

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"Didn't the whole of Europe get fascinated by Egypte at that point, though?" Cameron asked. "But yeah, he probably thought he was the Caesar of his age or something."

Re: Discussion on Ancient Rome

[bruiser-in-pink.livejournal.com]

Molly only knew the basics about Napoleon so she just read the information in the handout and listened to the discussions of the other students.

Re: Discussion on Ancient Rome

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"I think what he meant to say," Chad said pointedly after a moment, "is that the story of Rome is the story of the western world." A rant was building up inside his head, though it would probably never develop into fruition.

Play the game!

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Who dunnit?

Re: Play the game!

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

Blair figured out the answer to the game eventually, but he was pretty sure that the Trader had killed Claudius and his little dog too.

Re: Play the game!

[dorky-broots.livejournal.com]

Broots figured it out quickly, but couldn't get the right combination of clues for a good ten tries.

Re: Play the game!

[sensitivejim.livejournal.com]

Jim figured it out pretty quickly, even if his original thought was more along the lines of . . . well, anyways.

Hey, maybe he'd be a detective when he grew up.

Re: Play the game!

[daemonridden.livejournal.com]

Lyra's pretty positive that he died of malaria. Especially because the game told her so.

Re: Play the game!

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

Chad could tell easily that it was a disease, and chose malaria, as that was the only choice of disease, but, apparantly, he didn't get the game very well because one of his exhibits were wrong? And he didn't investigate enough? What more was there to investigate after you knew the dog wasn't poisoned from eating the food and it couldn't have been the slave because the slave would have stolen the money...

...or maybe the slave didn't steal the money, because that would have been too suspicious! Ah-ha! Chad went back and played the game again.

Re: Play the game!

[bookyeve.livejournal.com]

Evie figured out it was malaria and was thrilled to get it right, but went back because she wanted to know the story behind the man's time as a slave. *So* interesting....

Re: Play the game!

[likethegun]

Sam felt a bit like he was playing Clue as he tried to pick the right exhibits to support the malaria diagnosis.

Talk to Dr. Jackson

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[[ooc: Again, with the pinging when back from work omg]]

Re: Talk to Dr. Jackson

[bookyeve.livejournal.com]

"Dr. Jackson?" Evie fiddled with a pen, then attempted not to knock anything over. "Um, the Club Fair is today. And I was wondering if, possibly, I could put you down as the faculty sponsor for the Archaeology Club?" she asked all on one breath.

Re: Talk to Dr. Jackson

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Daniel smiled at her. "You can most certainly," he said. "I'd love to sponsor the Archaeology club."

Re: Talk to Dr. Jackson

[bookyeve.livejournal.com]

"Oh, brilliant! Thank you, Dr. Jackson!" Evie subsided into a little chair dance. She might have been humming Walk Like an Egyptian.

OOC

[the-ascended.livejournal.com]

I wasn't kidding when I said I'd be loving and worshipping the BBC website during this course!

Re: OOC

[bookyeve.livejournal.com]

*snicker* (And there's an archaeology club in the Clubs post-- you up for being faculty advisor on that?)

Re: OOC

[the-ascended.livejournal.com]

Absolutely! Just let me know when and where :)