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Classroom Challenge and Historical Knowledge
William Hundert:
Mr. Bell, will you please finish my diagram for the class?
Robert Brewster:
Oh ho, busted!
William Hundert:
Octavian was also known as Augustus and his title was ______? Sedgewick looks at the blackboard like a dog staring at its reflection in water Mr. Bell! An ordinary dung beetle traveling across the floor of this classroom would know the answer to that question!
Sedgewick Bell:
Uh, Emperor?
William Hundert:
Correct. Can you name any of the subsequent Roman Emperors? There were forty-one.
Sedgewick Bell:
I only know seven.
William Hundert:
Very well. Recite them.
Sedgewick Bell:
Sleepy, Grumpy, Bashful, Doc, Happy, Sneezy...Dopey.
William Hundert:
Can you, in fact, name any Emperor of Rome?
Sedgewick Bell:
I know four. Let me see...
Sedgewick Bell: [faux-British accent]
John, Paul, Ringo and uh, George!
William Hundert: [[Aristophanes]
MR. BELL! A word of warning! As the great wit ] once wrote, loosely translated; "Youth ages. Immaturity is outgrown. Ignorance can be educated and drunkenness sobered, but STUPID lasts forever.
William Hundert:
Class please recite, in chronological order, the entire line of succession for the Roman Empire.
Class: [in unison]
Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vepasian, Titus, Domitian, Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antonius Pius, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Verus, Commodus, Pertinax, Didius Julianus, Septimius Severus...
William Hundert:
Thank you, class, that will do. Mr. Bell, you may be seated.
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Exploring Ancient Roman Government Forms
William Hundert:
And with the demise of the Roman Monarchy, two new forms of government vied to take power in Rome. One was?
Martin Blythe:
Republic?
William Hundert:
Correct. Republic, or the rule of law, was the one that ultimately succeeded the monarchy. The other was?
Robert Brewster:
Tyranny?
William Hundert:
In spirit, perhaps, but etymologically, no. What was it?
Deepak Mehta:
Oligarchy?
William Hundert:
Correct. Oligarchy, or the rule of a few. Tyranny is what we have here in this classroom, and it works.
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