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same as for the rest of ancient, going down the syllabus and organmising my notes under those headings, but as someone else mentioned im also assessing certain actions of emperors+generals (e.g Germanicus little tantrum attack on GermanY) and saying what the signifcance for each is

Bradley CAN be used in the exam but you shouldnt use her on her own, she should only be quoted if your using her to support something that was stated in a primary sources, 2 of my teachers told me last year they had questions about whether Bradley could be used as a secondary source and the...

If what your studying has a large amount of primary sources (i.e. Rome or Athens) then you should use these as much as possible, with secondary sources being used to support or disagree with what has been said by your primary (e.g H.H Scullard agrees with Tacitus interpretation, or E.T Salmon...

The original towns in laconia that were established by the Dorians didnt have walls because lycurgus believed that the hoplites were the only wall that they needed, but archaeologists have found that some of the major centres in Messenia had walls, Spartans just couldnt be bothered tearing them...

Yeah its a good idea to have more than 4, thats the absolute minimum that you should have, also make sure that most of them are from a different school of history e.g make sure you have a feminist, marxist, annales, post-structuralist/modernist,oral, empirical, etc. That way you can be sure that...

The first thing is the 2nd triumvirate was originally formed by Octavian, Lepidus and Marc Antony to avenge the assassination of Julius Caesar and to sort the affairs of the Roman empire out. It saw the use of proscriptions (they drew up a list of all the people that had to be killed because...

Launcher why are you doing three historical periods?, and id be able to help if your doing Augustus and the Juli-Claudians, Roman society-Augustus to Titus , Spartan society to Leuctra or Cleopatra VII

Im doing Windschuttle, Reynolds, Herodotus, Daikonof, Braudel, Summers and Commager, and whats wrong with bloody windschuttle, his theory has more reliable evidence and overral strength than Reynolds little ideas ever will!

There are 2 from 5 people left in our ext history class!

Thiering is a bloody whacko!, she misuses the concept of the pesher to support her whacked theory, and everyone one of her ideas is built on that many presuppositions that it isnt funny, lol but depite that i still intend to use her in some way in the exam, might be a wake up for me, lol and for...

anyone thought of wearing a Roman toga?, cos im telling you im tempted!

I looked at different historians opinions on William Bligh and whether they thought that he was responsible for the mutiny on Bounty, i was attempting to ascertain whether or not histories judgement of Bligh as a tyrant was fair, or whether hes been unfairly treated by historians, and in my...

yeah i knew that youd use sources i just wasnt sure whether the criteria you used in assessing them was the same as the one we use in ancient, lol, but it makes sense that it would

I think i went well in the trials, i think we did a catholic paper, although im not sure, if the article you did for section one was by Dirk Moses then yes i did the same one. The debates that i did were the standard messiah Vs run of the mill Galilean prophet, and i threw in a historian who...

For our who are the historians section is we picked a number of historians ( Windschuttle, Reynolds, Daikonof, Braudel, Herodotus and Marx) and went through said who they were (obviously), where they came from, training etc, what they wrote, what school of though they belong to, then said what...

Yeah we're doing the historicity of jesus as well, lol my teachers like a trained theologist so he knows where to make us look for info, or tells us the stuff straight out, so he knows what hes on about. Anyone care for a note exchange?

Yeah i had the one with the article by Dirk Moses as well, it felt weird saying "Moses believes...", lol. I did really good in section one actually, 1 8 page booklet and 3 pages out of a 4:), beat everyone else in my class :) (yes , i am a very modest person!), as for question two, hmmmm yes...

hey, if your in the Newcastle Port Stephens area id be willing to help you, Im up near Nelson Bay and go to Irrawang High School, im studying Aug and the Julio Claudians, Roman society from Aug-Tit, Spartan society to Leuctra and Cleopatra, currently coming first in the year, PM if you want help

LOL our ECT class is the same, one massive debate, we're doing the historicity of Jesus Christ and our debates are massive, im a liberal theologan while the only other persons a fundamentalist, lol our teacher always stops us before the punch ups, love religion

lol, see the related texts post