Course topics.

Try this with Ancient History

1. Compare the topic list with the current course outline from your school.
2. Pick a topic you can partly explain and identify the exact part you want to work through.
3. Bring one example of the kind of question or task your school uses.

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Topics in the resource inventory

• Campania, Vesuvius and AD 79: Setting, Eruption and Impact
• From 1748 to Today: Excavation History and Changing Representations
• Forum, Trade and Decuriones: Economy and Politics in the Two Cities
• Men, Women, Freedmen and Slaves: Social Structure and Daily Life
• Conserving Pompeii: New Technologies, Ethics, Custodianship and Tourism
• Locating Your Society: Geography, Resources and Significant Sites
• Who Held Power: Social Structure and Political Organisation
• Land, Labour and Exchange: The Economy of Your Society
• Gods, Festivals and the Dead: Religion, Death and Burial
• Everyday Life and the Evidence Problem: Sources for Your Society
• The World That Made Them: Historical Context of Your Personality
• Background and Rise to Prominence: Family, Claim and Early Career
• Titles, Images, Policy and Programs: The Career in Detail
• Allies, Rivals and Institutions: Key Relationships
• Evaluation and Legacy: Ancient and Modern Images, and Your Key Source
• Setting the Scene: Chronology, Geography and Regional Powers
• The Nature of Power and Authority in Your Period
• Internal Developments: Political, Religious and Economic Change
• Warfare, Expansion and the Administration of Empire
• Contested Interpretations and Building the 25-Mark Extended Response