A history student was so enamored with Ancient Rome that he decided to become a Roman himself. His friends weren’t very supportive. They kept telling him to β€œGet with the times...

New Roman.”

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My least favorite subject in school was ancient history.

The teacher always tended to Babylon

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What's the worst thing about ancient history class?

The teachers tend to Babylon.

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I know a lot about ancient history, except for Greek Mythology.

It's my Achilles Knee.

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Of all the classes I took in college, Ancient History was the worst...

My teacher would just Babylon

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Even Ferdinand Feghoot could be outpunned on occasion – but he always rose to the challenge.

There was, for instance, the time he conducted a crew of new S.A.R.H. (Society for the Aesthetic Rearrangement of History -BJ) recruits – all from late twentieth-century Terra – on a training study of Carter’s World, a newly established agricultural colony attempting to support itself by the export of edible nuts. Barely into their second generation, and having yet to show a profit, the colonists were technologically backward. Nevertheless, they showed a surprising ingenuity in the use of their few advantages. It was this resourcefulness that Feghoot was demonstrating to his rookies.

β€œLook at the perfection with which these streets are graded”, exclaimed one student. β€œEarth-moving machinery on this scale is strictly high technology stuff. How can they do it?”

β€œA new alleyway is being constructed, nearby”, said Feghoot. β€œLet us walk that way while I explain.” As they strolled, he told his students that countless centuries before, the Carter’s World system had been inhabited by a now-vanished race of giants. This very planet had served them for a nursery, and among the many artifacts they had left were thousands of childrens blocks, immense and precision-cut. You simply jack one up onto logs, bring it where you want it, put collapsible jacks underneath, snake out the logs, spread soil more or less evenly beneath, and collapse the jacks.

β€œI see”, said the student. β€œIt’s not graded road at all; its a simple hammered-earth base.”

β€œThat’s right,” Feghoot went on smoothly. β€œYou just hit the road jack and don’t come back no mo.”

His students registered dismay and anguish.

β€œIsn’t that right, old-timer?,” Feghoot demanded of an ancient Carterian standing by the mouth of the newly completed alley they had just reached.

β€œAhm afraid not, suh”, said the senior citizen, and the students giggled at Feghoots discomfiture. β€œOh, we used to do it that way, but it was far too much trouble. It’s the soil heah. You see, the very same soil which produced our famous cashews is so high in clay content that a child could roll out a road of it. Then, we simply use a system of lenses to bake it into hardness. Ahve just completed this alley mahself, and ahm just a retired professor of Sports History, much too old and feeble to handle hydraulic jacks.

β€œSo you see,” he finished, eyes twinkling, β€œMah hammered alley is really cashews clay.”

Howls of agony rose from the students, but Feghoot never hesitated. β€œAnd he”, he said, turning to his students, β€œis clearly the gradi

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A long time ago, I translated pre Classical Greek literature into Braille.

It feels like ancient history.

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What's the worst thing about ancient history class?

The teachers tend to Babylon.

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Why are ancient history lecturers boring?

They tend to babylon

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What's the worst thing about ancient history class?

The teachers tend to Babylon.

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What’s the worst thing about ancient history class?

The teachers tend to Babylon.

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What’s the worst thing about ancient history class?

The teachers tend to Babylon

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A few years ago, I had a job translating pre-Classical Greek literature into Braille.

It feels like ancient history.

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A long time ago, I translated pre-classical Greek literature into Braille.

It feels like ancient history.

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Years ago, I had a job translating pre Classical Greek literature into Braille.

It feels like ancient history.

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I just read a book on pre-classical Greek literature in Braille.

It felt like ancient history.

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It’s been a month since I quit my job transcribing pre-Classical Greek lit into Braille.

It feels like ancient history.

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