Oatley Senior Campus

Georges River College

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Ancient History

Ancient History

The study of history is an enquiry into past experience that helps make the present more intelligible. A study of the past is invaluable, for to be unaware of history is to be ignorant of those forces that have shaped our social and physical worlds.

Preliminary Course

Investigating the past: History, Archaeology and Science

Case Studies: Ancient human remains

                      Tutankhamun's tomb

                       Boudicca: resistance to Roman rule

 

Ancient Societies, Sites and Sources- The Colosseum

Historical Investigation

 

HSC Course

Core study: Cities of Vesuvius- Pompeii and Herculaneum

Ancient Societies Option I Greece: Spartan society to the Battle of Leuctra 371 BC

Personalities in Their Times Option E The New East : Xerxes

Historical Periods Option H Greece: The Greek World 500-440BC.