Ancient History Predictions/Thoughts (2 Viewers)

[Cute-Duckie]

am i cooked if i talked about leadership and strategies in other battles, i somewhat related to question !

if your points answered the question hopefully youll be okay

 

[Cute-Duckie]

Hopefully everyone else in my cohort did well, my rank is abysmal, so despite my confidence in today's test I could get absolutely shafted.

yeah im praying that my cohort clutched up too and that they mark easy ngl, hopefully u did well today and itll push u up a bunch

 

[billy10101]

hope my cohort did good, i did not cook for the other sections other than personalities i think

 

[Gods_Spear]

That exam was hella nice, pomp and herc was sorta a lay up, and all my other ones had very easy nice questions, Im very happy

 

[Gods_Spear]

My teacher was feeling bad for the Julio Claudians, apparantly it wasnt great, my heart goes out to you Augustus was quite nice. Also all my predictions were wrong went 0/16

 

[billy10101]

That exam was hella nice, pomp and herc was sorta a lay up, and all my other ones had very easy nice questions, Im very happy

i might have been the only person that messed up this test

 

[nitroexcalibur]

My teacher was feeling bad for the Julio Claudians, apparantly it wasnt great, my heart goes out to you Augustus was quite nice. Also all my predictions were wrong went 0/16

My teacher didn’t like the Julio Claudians one either, because the death of Augustus one really was a huge trap that talks mostly about his reforms + changing role of princeps, etc

I did the other one on the success of the rulers and said Claudius, which I had an easier time doing

 

[Serenawilder]

wh


which question did you answer for greek world!!

I did second one even though it was a bit harder but I preferred Development of Athens anyway

 

[Serenawilder]

My essay probably wasn't that great. I sorta did a huge paragraph on Pericles' legislation (Payment of the Jurors, Zeigutae to Archonship, reducing power of the areopagus-->Boule, Ecclesia, etc).
Then I tried desperately to link the Delian League --> Athenian Empire to the question since I studied so much on that, so I mostly spoke about how the Delian Leagues transformation to the Athenian empire was key to the preservation of democracy in Athens, since they were facing threats not only from the Persian Empire, but also the oligarchic Peloponnese.
Third one I tried to say that Pericles' development of Athens was crucial to the increasing public participation (thus developing democracy) among the lower classes (building Parthenon required artisans and lower class labourers). The 'Golden Age' of Athens also highlighted the success of a democractic system of government, (idk if that's relevant tho).

I think the question was 'How significant were the key developments of democracy in the Greek World 500-440 BCE'

I AM GLAD SOMEONE ELSE BOUGHT IN DELIAN LEAGUE because I studied so much for it and ain’t no way was I not gonna use it

 

[Serenawilder]

i might have been the only person that messed up this test

No it’s okay I messed up too 🥹

 

[Serenawilder]

source E was an extract from professor wallace hadrill, who started the Herculaneum conservation project. basically a massive archaeological project in Herculaneum aimed at restoring the town through funding, as the town received even less international funding than pompeii and was neglected.

even if you didn’t get to study him, all you really needed to know is that he was talking about how Herculaneum by comparison has far less public buildings which makes studying its public life a bit more difficult. but you can make inferences from the bathhouses and the theater that’s there as well as the absence of many public buildings to show the wealth of the town

I MENTIONED BATHHOUSES AND THEATRE OMG okay this makes me feel a bit better.

 

[Cute-Duckie]

I MENTIONED BATHHOUSES AND THEATRE OMG okay this makes me feel a bit better.

yess I mentioned theatres as well (and the xylospongium for some reason )

 

[radagastthebrown]

yess I mentioned theatres as well (and the xylospongium for some reason )

wtf is the xylospongium???

 

[lildroptop]

wtf is the xylospongium???

roman toilet paper - sponge on a stick

 

[lildroptop]

For section 4? Idk I wrote a little over 6 pages, most people at my school did 7-8 with decently neat handwriting

i did 6 for reforms but hadnt studied it lol i just spammed admin

 

[radagastthebrown]

roman toilet paper - sponge on a stick

 

[bibble]

My teacher didn’t like the Julio Claudians one either, because the death of Augustus one really was a huge trap that talks mostly about his reforms + changing role of princeps, etc

I did the other one on the success of the rulers and said Claudius, which I had an easier time doing

genuinely everyones reforms disappeared from my brain so i just panicked and warped death of augustus so i could talk abt how much gaius/nero sucked lol

 

[bibble]

for those who did the Julio Claudians who chose option B? or if you chose option A how did you find it

ngl i predicted changing image of nero so when death of augustus popped up i talked about how augustus' death impacted the principate to a large extent bc since he was no longer there, the principate descended into chaos/eventual destruction

 

[Serenawilder]

if it helps tbh I definitely think the difficulty curve has increased this year over last year for the paper so it probably will scale in our favour (even tho ancient scaling isn’t incredible to begin with)

Let’s hope this is true because every time I see Ancient’s scaling I lose my shit

 

[dinfarmanshad2222]

I MENTIONED BATHHOUSES AND THEATRE OMG okay this makes me feel a bit better.

bruh i mentioned the marketplace is that ok?