![]() The video game had taught me not just the dates, but the major players: the Normans (led by Duke William), the Saxons (led by Harold Godwinson), and the Vikings (led by Harold Hadrada). She snorted derisively, and turned back to the board.įor a few minutes, it seemed like the countless hours spent sitting at my father’s desk, playing Empire Earth on his clunky Dell desktop, was actually going to connect to something in my dreary formal education. I opened my mouth, and to everyone’s surprise the answer just spilled out. Until that point, I had rarely spoken in class. “Yes?” she asked, pointing to me, squinting with suspicion. When I raised my hand, my teacher raised her eyebrows. But for me, those four digits set off a cascade of images and ideas in my head. My classmates seem to lapse into a semi-stupor. “Can anyone tell me what happened in this year?” she asked. ![]() One morning, my history teacher drew the numbers 1066 on the blackboard.
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