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Ancient History

Stage 6 · HSC questions by topic

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Ancient History

Atlas organises human-reviewed questions against the NSW Stage 6 Ancient Historysyllabus. Every published question retains its exam source and page.

Syllabus: NESA Stage 6 (2017)
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Core Study: Cities of Vesuvius – Pompeii and Herculaneum

  • Pompeii and Herculaneum

Ancient Societies

  • New Kingdom Egypt society to the death of Amenhotep III
  • New Kingdom Egypt society during the Ramesside period
  • Society in Israel from Solomon to the fall of Samaria
  • Persian society at the time of Darius and Xerxes
  • Society in China during the Han Dynasty
  • Bronze Age – Minoan Crete
  • Spartan society to the Battle of Leuctra
  • Athenian society in the time of Pericles

Personalities in their Times

  • Egypt – Hatshepsut
  • Egypt – Akhenaten
  • The Near East – Sennacherib
  • The Near East – Xerxes
  • China – Qin Shihuangdi
  • Greece – Pericles
  • Greece – Alexander the Great
  • Rome – Tiberius Gracchus
  • Rome – Julius Caesar
  • Rome – Agrippina the Younger

Historical Periods

  • New Kingdom Egypt to the Death of Thutmose IV
  • New Kingdom Egypt – Amenhotep III to the Death of Ramesses II
  • The Ancient Levant – First Temple Period
  • Persia – Cyrus II to the Death of Darius III
  • Imperial China – The Qin and Han 247–87 BC
  • The Greek World 500–440 BC
  • 4th-Century Greece to the Death of Philip II
  • The Fall of the Roman Republic 78–31 BC
  • The Augustan Age 44 BC – AD 14
  • The Julio-Claudians AD 14–69
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2025HSC
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Outline the main features of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79.

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