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

• How the TASC Ancient History exam works: three essays, five criteria, one civilisation rule
• Using primary and secondary evidence that markers reward
• Writing an analytical history essay in 60 minutes
• Interpretation, representation, reliability and contestability: the Section A toolkit
• The Battle of Kadesh: Ramesses II's victory or a stalemate?
• The destruction of Troy: Homer, the excavators and the Hittite archives
• Delphi: oracle, sanctuary and the limits of the evidence
• The Roman Games: origins, purpose and changing representations
• Masada: Josephus, Yadin and a contested symbol
• Xia, Shang and Zhou and the Ziggurats of Mesopotamia: myth, archaeology and reconstruction
• The four core elements: what political, social, economic and cultural structures really mean
• Building a Section B argument: historical context, core element and key feature
• Weapons and Warfare and Technology and Engineering as evidence of structure
• Women and Family: status, law and the limits of the sources
• Arts, Architecture and Drama and Beliefs, Rituals and Funerary Practices
• Human agency: evaluating an individual's power, motivation and influence
• Egyptian individuals: Mentuhotep II, Hatshepsut, Akhenaten, Horemheb and Ramesses II
• Greek individuals: Solon, Peisistratus, Cleomenes I, Themistocles and Thucydides
• Roman individuals: Sulla, Cicero, Caesar, Augustus and Livia
• Chinese and Assyrian individuals: Cao Cao, Liu Bei, Zhuge Liang, Tiglath-Pileser, Sargon II and Ashurbanipal