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History // Ancient Egypt
Modern Archaeology and Egyptian Ethics
Understand that modern Egyptologists use advanced technologies — CT scanning of mummies, satellite imagery to find buried structures, DNA analysis — alongside…
Ages 10 to 12Thinking skill
History // Ancient Egypt
Historical Sources on Ancient Egypt
Explain how knowledge of ancient Egypt is built from multiple source types — inscriptions, papyri, artefacts, and physical remains — and critically evaluate…
Ages 11 to 13Thinking skill
History // Ancient Egypt
Egyptian Maths and Engineering
Describe the Egyptian achievement in mathematics and engineering: the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus shows calculations of area, volume, and fractions; the…
Ages 11 to 13Concept
History // Ancient Egypt
Who Really Built the Pyramids
Analyse who built the pyramids and why, evaluating the evidence against the alien-builder myth and the slave-labour myth: archaeological evidence from worker…
Ages 12 to 14Thinking skill
History // Ancient Egypt
Egypt and Its Neighbours
Examine Egypt's relationships with neighbouring civilisations: trade networks reaching Nubia, the Levant, and Punt; the Hyksos invasion and the introduction of…
Ages 12 to 13Concept
History // Ancient Egypt
Fall of Ancient Egyptian Civilisation
Trace the end of ancient Egyptian civilisation through its successive conquests — Assyrian, Persian, Macedonian (Alexander the Great), and finally Roman — and…
Ages 13 to 14Concept
History // Ancient Greece & Rome
Hidden Voices of Greece and Rome
Examine the lives of people usually left out of the Greek and Roman story — enslaved people who made up roughly 30% of Athens and powered Rome's economy, women…
Ages 11 to 13Thinking skill
History // Ancient Greece & Rome
Troy: Myth or History?
Explore how Heinrich Schliemann's excavation at Hisarlik in modern Turkey raised questions about whether the Trojan War described in Homer's Iliad was…
Ages 11 to 13Concept
History // Ancient Greece & Rome
Inclusion and Exclusion in Athens
Analyse who was included and excluded from Athenian democracy — only free adult male citizens (roughly 30% of adults) could participate, while women, enslaved…
Ages 11 to 13Concept
History // Ancient Greece & Rome
Fall of the Roman Republic
Trace how Roman political violence — the murder of the Gracchi brothers, civil wars between Marius and Sulla, Caesar's crossing of the Rubicon and assassination…
Ages 12 to 14Concept