{"id":8072,"date":"2025-08-03T13:53:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T20:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/?p=8072"},"modified":"2025-08-03T16:50:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T23:50:38","slug":"dominion-of-the-ancients-a-hands-on-learning-resource-for-social-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/2025\/08\/03\/dominion-of-the-ancients-a-hands-on-learning-resource-for-social-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Venture: Dominion of the Ancients: A Hands-on Learning Resource for Social Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim\"><\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-8073\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/files\/2025\/08\/ChatGPT-Image-Jul-29-2025-05_01_57-PM.png\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/files\/2025\/08\/ChatGPT-Image-Jul-29-2025-05_01_57-PM.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/files\/2025\/08\/ChatGPT-Image-Jul-29-2025-05_01_57-PM-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/files\/2025\/08\/ChatGPT-Image-Jul-29-2025-05_01_57-PM-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/files\/2025\/08\/ChatGPT-Image-Jul-29-2025-05_01_57-PM-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size\"><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Hello everyone,<br><br>Welcome to Dominion of the Ancients, a non-profit, turn-based board game venture where players lead ancient civilizations, such as Rome, Egypt, and China, competing to build wonders, expand cities, trade resources, and wage war. Through diplomacy, innovation, and conquest, players aim to earn 3,000 points, consequently transforming the old and traditional Social Studies class into something more engaging and interactive. With the help of AI and your financial backing, we plan to develop, print, and publish this amazing resource, making history fun, engaging, and accessible for students and educators.<br><br>Interested? Please join us on the website listed below to view our elevator pitch and much more detailed game pitch there:<br><br>The game&#8217;s website: <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/classroom-of-ancients\/home\">https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/classroom-of-ancients\/home<\/a><br><br>Thank you for your time!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone, Welcome to Dominion of the Ancients, a non-profit, turn-based board game venture where players lead ancient civilizations, such as Rome, Egypt, and China,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/2025\/08\/03\/dominion-of-the-ancients-a-hands-on-learning-resource-for-social-studies\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Venture: Dominion of the Ancients: A Hands-on Learning Resource for Social Studies<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":49012,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a3-venture-pitch","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49012"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8072"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8078,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8072\/revisions\/8078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}