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11–12Ancient History Life Skills 11–12 Syllabus (2024)

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Implementation from 2027
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Life Skills

Life Skills for Stage 6

Through collaborative curriculum planning, it may be decided that Life Skills outcomes and content are the most appropriate option for some students with intellectual disability.

Historical periods

The following historical periods are suggestions only. Teachers may develop studies of a different historical period to meet student interest or ability. Students may explore one historical period, part of a historical period or elements of the content as appropriate.

  • New Kingdom Egypt to the death of Thutmose IV
  • New Kingdom Egypt – Amenhotep III to the death of Ramesses II
  • The Levant in the period c. 869–586 BCE
  • Persia – Cyrus II to the death of Darius III
  • Imperial China – the Qin and Han 247–87 BCE
  • The Greek world 500–440 BCE
  • Greece from 404 BCE to the death of Philip II
  • The fall of the Roman Republic 78–42 BCE
  • The Augustan Age 44 BCE–14 CE
  • The Julio-Claudians 14–68 CE
Connections and context

  • Connections to people, places or events of the selected historical period

  • The chronological context of the selected historical period, including significant prior events

  • Geographical context of the selected historical period, including contact with other societies

  • Available archaeological and written sources, and what they tell us about the selected historical period

Individuals and community

  • Distribution of power

  • Significant contributions and achievements of individuals

  • Nature of citizenship and belonging

  • Role and impact of women and other social groups

  • Religion and spirituality

  • Comparison between an individual or community from the selected historical period and contemporary individuals or communities

Social, political and economic events and developments

  • Features of significant events and developments

  • Factors contributing to significant events and developments

  • How power was distributed

  • Rise, expansion, consolidation and decline of power

  • Leadership and politics, and how these changed

  • Economic reforms

  • Technology developments and their impact

  • Rise and/or decline of society

  • Role of the military and key conflicts

  • The nature of relationships between societies during this period and how this might have changed

  • Shifting borders and the impacts this had on relationships between societies

  • The reasons for invasion and the effects on empires

  • The contributions of war and conflict to geographic or social expansion

Significance and legacy

  • Impact and legacy of a significant individual or community from the selected historical period

  • The legacy of the selected historical period in the modern world

  • Modern representations of the selected historical period

  • Similarities and differences between the selected historical period and modern societies

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