Contents
Meet our author team ................................................................... vi About this resource ........................................................................ ix Acknowledgements ..................................................................... xvi Understanding cognitive verbs .................................
3.6 What is the truth about the pyramids? .......... 97 3.7 Who were Tutankhamun, Akhenaten and Nefertiti? ..................................................... 102 3.8 What were the effects of war and trade? .... 106 3.9 Rameses II — Egypt’s greatest pharaoh? ... 110 3.10 What should we thank the Egyptians for? ... 115 3.11 Inquiry: How have powerful women been recorded and treated in history? ................. 118 3.12 Review ........................................................ 121
HISTORY
1 Historical concepts and skills 1 1.1 Overview ......................................................... 2 1.2 Historical concepts and skills ......................... 4 1.3 SkillBuilder: Historical questions ....................................... 1.4 SkillBuilder: Chronology ............... 1.5 SkillBuilder: Using historical sources .......................................... 1.6 SkillBuilder: Continuity and change ........................................... 1.7 SkillBuilder: Causes and consequences ............................... 1.8 SkillBuilder: Historical significance ................................... 1.9 SkillBuilder: Communicating ........ 1.10 Review .......................................................... 13 2 Deep Time to modern era 17 2.1 Overview ....................................................... 18 2.2 How do we learn about Deep Time in Australia? ...................................................... 20 2.3 What is meant by Country and creation? ...... 24 2.4 How has landscape and life changed? ......... 28 2.5 Living with the megafauna ............................ 31 2.6 What is connection to Country and kin? ....... 36 2.7 What beliefs and values shaped everyday life? ................................................ 40 2.8 How did trade and technology develop in ancient Australia? ......................................... 45 2.9 How was land managed? ............................. 51 2.10 How do we care for Country and Place? ...... 56 2.11 How is connection to culture and Country continuing? ..................................... 62 2.12 Inquiry: Should we return ancestral remains from museums? .............................. 66 2.13 Review .......................................................... 68 3 Ancient Egypt 73 3.1 Overview ....................................................... 74 3.2 How do we know about ancient Egypt? ....... 76 3.3 Why was the River Nile so important? .......... 80 3.4 What was Egyptian society like? ................... 85 3.5 What did ancient Egyptians believe? ............ 92
4 Ancient Greece 4.1 Overview
4.2 How do we know about ancient Greece? 4.3 Who were the Minoans and Mycenaeans? 4.4 What was the Greek ‘Dark Age’? 4.5 How were Athens and Sparta governed?
4.6 What was life like in Sparta? 4.7 What was life like in Athens? 4.8 What do we know about Greek laws, myths, gods and oracles? 4.9 What were the Olympic Games? 4.10 How was Greece changed by wars? 4.11 What is the heritage of ancient Greece? 4.12 Inquiry: Did the Spartans really kill their weak babies? 4.13 Review 127 5.1 Overview ..................................................... 128 5.2 How do we know about ancient Rome? ..... 130 5.3 How did Rome become so powerful? ......... 134 5.4 How did the Roman Empire grow? ............. 138 5.5 Why was the Roman army so successful? ................................................. 142 5.6 How was Rome ruled? ................................ 145 5.7 How brutal was Roman slavery? ................. 150 5.8 What was it like to live in the Roman Empire? ...................................................... 153 5.9 What did ancient Romans believe about death? ........................................................ 158 5.10 How did ancient Roman laws and religion change? ......................................... 160 5.11 Why did the Roman Empire fall? ................. 165 5.12 What is Rome’s heritage? ........................... 169 5.13 Inquiry: How bad was Emperor Nero? ........ 173 5.14 Review ........................................................ 176
5 Ancient Rome
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