Year 12 Ancient History – Half Yearly Examinations
Areas of study:
Akhenaten
Text 1: Chapter 4: Akhenaten
Text 2: Chapter 13: Akhenaten and the Amarna Interlude
Text 3: Chapter 3: Akhenaten by Jennifer Lawless
Topic areas
Background and rise to prominence
Family background and evidence for early years
Marriage: queens and consorts
The career of Akhenaten
Titles and changes to his royal image over time
Text 1
117-120
117
119, 121122,
117-118
Text 2
399-400
399-400
401
Text 3
398-399
433-438
134-136
124
118
121-123
123
407-408
409-411
415-419
76-78
Religious policy: reforms, nature, importance and impact of Aten
worship
123-132
402-405
65-68
Artistic innovations and development: representations of the Aten,
Akhenaten and the royal family
132-133
412-415
69-70
Foreign policy: Syria-Palestine, Nubia
133-134
427-433
71-73
Changes to afterlife beliefs and funerary customs: royal and nonroyal tombs
130-131
420-422
Role of Nefertiti and the issue of the co-regency
Role of the royal family
119, 121122,
423-427
Early building program including East Karnak
Transfer of capital to Akhetaten: political and religious motives
Akhetaten: function and layout of the city
76-78
74-75
Sparta
Text 1: Chapter 2: Spartan society to the Battle of Leuctra 371 BC
Text 2: Part 4: Spartan Society by Kathryn Welch
Text 3: Sparta by Robin Barrow
Topic areas
The geographical setting
– the geographical setting, natural features and resources of
ancient Sparta
– significant sites: Sparta
2 Social structure and political organisation
– the issue of Lycurgus (the Great Rhetra)
– roles and privileges of the two kings
– government: ephorate, gerousia, ekklesia
– social structure: Spartiates, perioeci, ‘inferiors’, helots
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role of the Spartan army
control of the helots: the military, syssitia, krypteia
artisans, helots
educational system: agoge
role and status of women: land ownership, inheritance,
education
3 The economy
– land ownership: agriculture, kleroi, helots
– technology: weapons, armour, pottery
– economic roles of the periokoi (‘dwellers around’) and
helots
– economic exchange: use of iron bars, trade
4 Religion, death and burial
– gods and goddesses: Artemis Orthia, Poseidon, Apollo
– myths and legends: Lycurgus and the Dioscuri
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festivals: Hyakinthia, Gymnopaedia, Karneia
religious role of the kings
funerary customs and rituals
5 Cultural life
– art: sculpture, painted vases, bone and ivory carving
– architecture: Amyklaion, Menelaion, the Sanctuary of
Artemis Orthia
– writing and literature: Alcman and Tyrtaeus
– Greek writers’ views of Sparta: Herodotus, Thucydides,
Xenophon, Aristotle, Pausanias, Plutarch
6 Everyday life
– daily life and leisure activities
– food and clothing
– marriage customs
– occupations.
Text 1
Text 2
44-45
155-156
Text 3
Ch 2
47
61-62
62-64
47-49,
51-55
73-75
49, 54
65-66
50-51
55-61
48-49
73-75, 65
52-53
168-171
168-171
174-175
177-179
180-183
172-173
Ch 7
Ch 7
Ch 3, 4
Ch 5
PP 42-44
184-187
198-200
67-73
67-68
69
68-69
61-62
72
157-161
162-164
165-167
157-158
159-161
Ch 6
70-71
70-71
191-194
67
204-205
153-154
64-67
188-190
195-197
Remember the Chapter from the book edited by Dianne Hennesy…. Chapter on Sparta written by Jane
and Bruce Dennett.
Human Society and its Environment
Year 12 Ancient History
Assessment Task 3
Half Yearly Examination
Topic:
Ancient History Higher School Certificate Course.
Due date:
Weighting:
Term II, Week 2.
Wednesday .May 2nd 2007.
Week 2: Week B
Class 1: Periods 1 and 2
Class 2: Periods 3 and 4 (This class will be quarantined during recess)
15/100 (Examination assessment component)
Principal Focus:
Ancient History Higher School Certificate Course to date.
Assessment
Statements:
A student develops knowledge and understanding about:
Timing Details
Assessment
Criteria:
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people, places, societies and events in the context of their times
change and continuity over time
the process of historical inquiry
communicating an understanding of history
This external examination provides a measure of student achievement in a range of syllabus
outcomes that can be reliably measured in an examination setting.
Marking is based upon fluent responses and an oral presentation that together demonstrate a
knowledge and skills in the following areas:
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Presenting findings of investigations, analysing and synthesising information from a
range of sources both presented in th examination and drawn from the knowledge of
the student
Communicating a knowledge and understanding of relevant developments and issues
that shape the historical period, society or personality, using appropriate oral and
written forms
Locating, selecting and organising relevant information form a variety of sources to
investigate key developments, forces and issues of the historical period, society or
personality
Describing and assessing significant developments, forces and issues that shaped the
historical period, society or personality
Explaining the implications of relevant problems of evidence for reconstructing the
history of the period, society or personality
Analysing and evaluating relevant sources for their usefulness and reliability
Explaining and evaluating differing perspectives and interpretations of the historical
period, society or personality.
Task Description:
Duration: 2 hours
Reading time: 5 minutes.
Section I: Ancient Societies
(25 marks)
Candidates must attempt ONE question (Spartan society to the Battle of Leuctra 371 BC)
Each question will consist of four or five parts.
A source will be provided for this question.
Section II: Personalities in Their Times
Candidates must attempt TWO questions. (Egypt: Akhenaten)(25 marks each)
All questions will be in two or three parts, with the last part
of the question worth 15 marks.
(25 marks each –
50 marks in all)