TCE Ancient History Level 3 Notes

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1. How the TASC Ancient History exam works: three essays, five criteria, one civilisation ruleSkills · Exam technique

   Criteria and structure

2. Using primary and secondary evidence that markers rewardSkills · Exam technique

   Criterion 4 — evidence

3. Writing an analytical history essay in 60 minutesSkills · Exam technique

   Criterion 3 — communication

4. Interpretation, representation, reliability and contestability: the Section A toolkitSection A · Investigating the Ancient World

   Historiography toolkit

5. The Battle of Kadesh: Ramesses II's victory or a stalemate?Section A · Investigating the Ancient World

   A1 Battle of Kadesh

6. The destruction of Troy: Homer, the excavators and the Hittite archivesSection A · Investigating the Ancient World

   A2 Destruction of Troy

7. Delphi: oracle, sanctuary and the limits of the evidenceSection A · Investigating the Ancient World

   A3 Delphi

8. The Roman Games: origins, purpose and changing representationsSection A · Investigating the Ancient World

   A5 Roman Games

9. Masada: Josephus, Yadin and a contested symbolSection A · Investigating the Ancient World

   A4 Masada

10. Xia, Shang and Zhou and the Ziggurats of Mesopotamia: myth, archaeology and reconstructionSection A · Investigating the Ancient World

    A6–A7 China and Assyria

11. The four core elements: what political, social, economic and cultural structures really meanSection B · Structure of an Ancient Society

    Core elements

12. Building a Section B argument: historical context, core element and key featureSection B · Structure of an Ancient Society

    Historical context and features

13. Weapons and Warfare and Technology and Engineering as evidence of structureSection B · Structure of an Ancient Society

    Weapons, warfare, technology

14. Women and Family: status, law and the limits of the sourcesSection B · Structure of an Ancient Society

    Women and Family

15. Arts, Architecture and Drama and Beliefs, Rituals and Funerary PracticesSection B · Structure of an Ancient Society

    Arts, architecture, drama, beliefs

16. Human agency: evaluating an individual's power, motivation and influenceSection C · Power and Authority

    Criterion 7 toolkit

17. Egyptian individuals: Mentuhotep II, Hatshepsut, Akhenaten, Horemheb and Ramesses IISection C · Power and Authority

    Egypt individuals

18. Greek individuals: Solon, Peisistratus, Cleomenes I, Themistocles and ThucydidesSection C · Power and Authority

    Greek individuals

19. Roman individuals: Sulla, Cicero, Caesar, Augustus and LiviaSection C · Power and Authority

    Roman individuals

20. Chinese and Assyrian individuals: Cao Cao, Liu Bei, Zhuge Liang, Tiglath-Pileser, Sargon II and AshurbanipalSection C · Power and Authority

    Chinese and Assyrian individuals