vocabulary
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Rome Was Built on These. . . Spin the History Wheel
Rome was built on these. . . and with three letters on the board and $1,300 on the line, Player 1 knows exactly where this is going: SEVEN HILLS. Meet History Wheel, the newest duel on DuelingHistory.com. It’s a spin-the-wheel vocabulary game rebuilt from a 1993 ToolBook “Chapter Vocabulary” wheel game written by Stephen F.…
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Here Comes the Judge: Hammurabi Takes the Bench
If you are going to put Mesopotamia vocabulary on trial, you need a judge. And who better than the man who literally wrote the book on it? Around 1754 BCE, King Hammurabi of Babylon had 282 laws carved into a tall stone stele and set up where his people could see them. It is one…
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Every Game in One Place: The Dueling History Toolbox
My mother-in-law gave me a book called How to Teach Real Good. It was a joke. I keep it on the shelf anyway, because the title says the only thing I have ever been sure of: a class that is doing something remembers more than a class that is being told something. p> That is…


