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History // Ancient Egypt

Understand that modern Egyptologists use advanced technologies — CT scanning of mummies, satellite imagery to find buried structures, DNA analysis — alongside…

History // Ancient Egypt

Explain how knowledge of ancient Egypt is built from multiple source types — inscriptions, papyri, artefacts, and physical remains — and critically evaluate…

History // Ancient Egypt

Analyse who built the pyramids and why, evaluating the evidence against the alien-builder myth and the slave-labour myth: archaeological evidence from worker…

History // Ancient Greece & Rome

Understand that historians and archaeologists piece together ancient Greek and Roman life from evidence — pottery paintings, coins, inscriptions, ruins like…

History // Ancient Greece & 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…

History // Historical Thinking

Understand that everything we know about the past comes from evidence — objects, buildings, pictures, documents, and stories that have survived

History // Historical Thinking

Recognise that different people can give different accounts of the same event — and that both can be genuine while still disagreeing

History // Historical Thinking

Corroborate: check whether multiple sources agree on the same facts — and investigate why they might not

History // Historical Thinking

Before trusting a historical source, ask: who made this, when, and why? — the answers shape how much weight the source should carry

History // Historical Thinking

Understand that people in the past saw the world very differently from us — judge their actions by the context they lived in, not only by today's values

History // Historical Thinking

Distinguish between historical evidence and historical interpretation — evidence is what survived, interpretation is the argument a historian builds from it…