Level 7-8
Learning Objectives
- Examine the different methods and sources used by historians and archaeologists to investigate life in ancient Rome
- Analyse and corroborate sources and ask questions about their accuracy, usefulness and reliability
- Analyse different perspectives of people in the past through primary sources from Rome and ancient Italy in the NGV Collection
- Investigate evidence for significant beliefs associated with daily life such as household religion, the use of bathing in ritual and social interactions, and entertainment in theatres and amphitheatres
- Evaluate the role and achievements of Emperor Septimius Severus and Emperor Vespasian with consideration for their historical contexts, early lives, achievements, and how they were perceived by their contemporaries
- Assess the ways powerful figures in history have chosen to be portrayed in primary sources and consider the purpose of this
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