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Product Description Limit of 5 per customer. Not available to ship to Quebec, Canada. Ages 14 and up For 2 to 4 players.
Trivial Pursuit is a board game from Canada in which winning is determined by a player's ability to answer general knowledge and popular culture questions. A Trivial Pursuit, incorrectly titled as A Trivial Problem by some sources, is the sixteenth episode of season nine of My Little Pony Friendship is Magic and the show's two hundred and twelfth episode overall. The title is a reference to the Hasbro board game Trivial Pursuit.
All Rights Reserved. This fall, a new, innovative course is investigating that question. In Historical Simulations HIST , sixteen upper-level students are examining American history, from the era of exploration through the Civil War, through the medium of tabletop games.
Modern board games have come a long way from the days of Monopoly and Risk, explained Professor of History Patrick Rael , a lifelong gamer who also devised the course. More complex games take on difficult topics such as the breakdown of the Roman Empire, European wars of religion, or the attempt to assassinate Hitler.
Are they, like historical feature films or computer games, manifestations of popular culture that promote common understandings of past events? If so, how do games impact the kinds of historical arguments they make? Students will explore six episodes in American history through the medium of games: exploration and colonization, the American Revolution, the framing of the Constitution, the expansion of the frontier, the fight against slavery, and the coming of the Civil War.
For each theme, the class will play and study one game, putting it in conversation with historical scholarship and primary source documents on its subject.
Each game will be played twice: once to simply learn its mechanics, and again to analyze its presentation of the past.