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      Listed under:  History  >  Historical periods  >  Ancient history
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      Laptop wrap: Historical investigation

      • TLF-IDM016467

      This resource is a page with a focus on conducting historical investigation, focusing on defining a topic, and including supporting activities and links to resources.

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      Migrations and technological creativity

      • TLF-IDM021192

      This 6 minute video discusses the migrations that occurred in the ancient world. It follows migration from Africa about 90,000 years ago, across all continents until the last migrations into the Americas about 15,000 years ago. The video explores the emergence of technologies and their impact on the environment including ...

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      Ashoka and the Mauryan Empire

      • TLF-IDM019541

      This learning sequence explores the ancient world of India with a particular focus on the Mauryan Empire, the edicts of King Ashoka and the Greek invasion of India.

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      How did the first humans live?

      • TLF-IDM021187

      This 10 minute video in three parts offers an overview of what life was like in the ancient world. Part 1 introduces the Palaeolithic era, marked by the use of stone tools, focusing on Homo Sapiens, and the tools used to study this era - archaeology and anthropology. Part 2 discusses human foraging and the specialist techniques ...

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      Where and why did the first cities appear?

      • TLF-IDM021191

      This 10 minute video in three parts offers an overview of the development of the agrarian civilisations in the ancient world. Part 1 looks at how, as peasant villages spread, farmers developed more productive methods of farming, particularly the use of large animals for ploughing and transport, and irrigation. Part 2 looks ...

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      Laptop wrap: Conservation of Pompeii and Herculaneum

      • TLF-IDM016569

      This resource is a page with a focus on the issues of conservation as relating to Pompeii and Herculaneum with supporting activities and links to resources.

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      Laptop wrap – critiquing Carter

      • TLF-IDM016416

      In this laptop wrap resource students research, describe and evaluate the discovery and excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun by Howard Carter and his team.

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      Discovering democracy: stories of the people and rulers

      • TLF-IDL9509

      Explore types of governance such as absolute monarchy, Athenian democracy and representative democracy by interacting with a slideshow of images and text. Complete a related task.

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