Topic outline
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Ancient History
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In this Ancient History taster course you will complete the following.
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Introduction
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Welcome to this short introduction to the Ancient History course.
This will help to prepare you when you start you start learning Ancient History with Gower College Swansea!
Ancient History is the study of ancient Greece and Rome through the writings of ancient historians. Through those writings we look at politics, war and alliance, leadership, building works, etc. as well as how reliable those writing might actually be.
Here is a short course from the Open University that will give you an introduction to the Ancient world. You will need to create an account, but don’t worry, it’s all free!
This next course is also from the Open University, and will give you an introduction to one of the topics that you will study at AS.
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Video
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Video #1: The Roman Empire...
History Summarized: The Roman Empire (Better Version In Description) Empire Rome was officially made an empire when it Gustus did the thing with the stuff in the power but Rome was effectively an empire long before it actually had an emperor Roman territory stretched outside Italy as early as the third century BCE the only thing that really changed between the Republic and the Empire were a few name tags to be honest if you've seen the video I did on the Roman Republic you'll know that Augustus came into power at the tail end of century that had about ten too many civil wars for my liking..
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Video #2: Augustus v History...
His reign marked the beginning of one of history’s greatest empires … and the end of one of its first republics. Was Rome’s first emperor a visionary leader who guaranteed his civilization’s place in history, or a tyrant who destroyed its core values?History vs. Augustus - Peta Greenfield & Alex Gendler Peta Greenfield and Alex Gendler put this controversial figure on trial in History vs. Augustus....
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Video #3: Ancient Greece...
Greek culture in its earliest forms has been around for a good long while Between Minoan crete and later Mycenaean Greece. In the 400 Years after the Bronze age came crashing down, people had forgotten what writing was so the Greeks kept themselves busy by telling each other stories out loud about how awesome the Trojan war was when they finally remembered What writing was in the seven or eight hundreds they decided to write it all down Around the same time, they also remembered how to build big shiny societies and a bunch of different villages and towns built themselves up and each became what's called a polis.
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Video #4: Ancient Persia...
Our story begins in the mid 500 BC The big kid in town was the median Empire and they had a reputation for being mean to their subjects.
So some people to the south (Persians) and in particular this guy Cyrus wanted to have a go at conquering them. Cyrus didn't really have a big army but he was smart and he garnered a lot of military and political support from some of the annoyed Median nobility he managed this by promising his new allies that their people would be treated as full equals of the Persian and unlike some other Empires..
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Video #5: Herodotus...
There is much to do, and many unknowns on our horizon! — One of those unknowns is "How did Herodotus become the Father of History" and why is his book so confusingly organized?
All that and more on this installment of History-Makers!
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Summary
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Thank you for completing these short courses, we hope you enjoyed them! We look forward to seeing you when you join us to study Ancient History with Gower College Swansea.
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Extended Reading
If you would like to learn more about Ancient History then have a look at some further resources and click on the links below:
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Here are some videos that might interest you from GCS TV.
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