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WAAncient History

Unit 4: Study of an Ancient Period

13 dot points across 13 inquiry questions. Click any dot point for a focused answer with worked past exam questions where available.

What was the Amarna revolution, and how did Akhenaten transform Egyptian religion, art and politics?

How did the Egyptian New Kingdom develop and recover through the Amarna revolution from Amenhotep II to Horemheb?

How did Horemheb restore order and royal authority at the end of the Eighteenth Dynasty, and how did he treat the Amarna legacy?

How was the traditional order restored after Akhenaten, and what does Tutankhamun's reign and tomb reveal about the period?

How did Pericles lead Athenian democracy and empire, and how did his leadership shape the path to and conduct of the Peloponnesian War?

Why did Athens and Sparta go to war, and how did the Peloponnesian War reshape the Greek world between 431 and 404 BC?

Why did the Sicilian Expedition fail, and how did Persian intervention and Spartan naval power bring about the fall of Athens?

How and why do historians disagree about the ancient past, and how should students use competing interpretations?

How was power and authority exercised, justified and contested by key individuals across the ancient period studied?

How did imperial women such as Livia and Agrippina the Younger exercise power within the Julio-Claudian dynasty?

How did Augustus construct the Principate, and how did the settlements of 27 and 23 BC disguise monarchy as restored Republic?

How did the Principate develop and the exercise of imperial power change under the Julio-Claudian emperors from AD 14 to 68?

How did the army and the Praetorian Guard come to determine imperial succession under the Julio-Claudians?