Cambridge Checkpoints QCE Ancient History Units 1–4 Second Edition (digital)

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Unit 1 Investigating the Ancient World
Topics 2, 3, 4, 6 & 7 Slavery, Art and architecture, Weapons and warfare, Family, Beliefs, rituals and funerary practices
Topics 6 & 7 The family, and Beliefs, rituals and funerary practices
Unit 2 Personalities in their times
Topic 1 Hatshepsut
Topic 4 Perikles
Topic 7 Cleopatra
Topic 8 Agrippina the Younger
Unit 3 Reconstructing the Ancient World
Topic 3 Assyria from Tiglath Pileser III to the fall of the Empire
Topic 5 Philip II and Alexander III of Macedon
Topic 9 The ‘Fall’ of the Western Roman Empire
Topic 10 The Medieval Crusades
Unit 4 People, power and authority
Topic 1 Egypt – New Kingdom Imperialism
Topic 2 Greece – the Persian Wars
Topic 3 Greece – the Peloponnesian War
Topic 4 Rome – the Punic Wars
Topic 5 Rome – Civil War and the breakdown of the Republic
Topic 12 Augustus
2021 Ancient History External assessment
2021 Ancient History External assessment marking guide