{"id":3202,"date":"2026-04-12T16:36:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T06:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/academic-guides\/academic-guide-years-9-10\/elective-history\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T14:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T04:25:08","slug":"elective-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/academic-guides\/academic-guide-years-9-10\/elective-courses\/elective-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Elective Ancient History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"page-intro wp-block-paragraph\">A NESA Elective<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><!-- section: section_text --><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Elective Ancient History<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Newington&#8217;s Elective History course offers students the opportunity to study the ancient world, which is not available in the IGCSE course.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why is studying ancient history&nbsp;a good idea?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>It\u00a0helps students understand the range of human experience across time. It reveals how people in different environments and periods lived their daily lives, how they responded to challenges such as war, famine, and political change, and how they expressed beliefs through art, architecture, and literature. Students will gain an appreciation of the common features of human\u00a0societies and\u00a0experiences.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>It\u00a0develops important analytical skills. Because evidence from the ancient world is often incomplete,\u00a0students must interpret archaeological remains, written records, and material culture carefully. This requires critical thinking, evaluation of sources, and the ability to construct reasoned arguments. These skills are valuable not only in history but in many other academic and professional fields.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>It helps students\u00a0understand both continuity and change over time. It shows how some institutions and ideas endure across centuries, while others evolve or disappear.\u00a0It\u00a0provides the foundation for understanding the world; this course will help students contextualise the political systems, legal ideas, cultural traditions, and technological developments that shape our society.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>It will provide\u00a0very helpful\u00a0source analysis, thinking and writing skills which will be highly valuable for HSC Ancient History, and will also be transferable to\u00a0HSC\u00a0Modern History,\u00a0HSC\u00a0Aboriginal Studies, HSC Legal Studies, and\u00a0IB History.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Year 9 \u2013 Content\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Historical Period:\u00a0Imperial China,\u00a0Qin\u00a0and Han\u00a0dynasties\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Society Study: Ancient Greece\u00a0in the 5<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Century\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Personality Study: Cleopatra\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Year 10\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Content\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Historical Period:\u00a0New Kingdom Egypt\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Society Study: Rome in the 1<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0Century\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Personality Study: Alexander the Great\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Depth Study:\u00a0Ancient Human Remains\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A NESA Elective Elective Ancient History Newington&#8217;s Elective History course offers students the opportunity to study the ancient world, which is not available in the IGCSE course.&nbsp; Why is studying ancient history&nbsp;a good idea?&nbsp; Year 9 \u2013 Content\u00a0 Year 10\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Content\u00a0 &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"parent":3198,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-3202","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/academic-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/academic-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/academic-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/academic-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/academic-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3202"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/academic-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4245,"href":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/academic-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3202\/revisions\/4245"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/academic-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/academic-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}