New South Wales’ most trusted Ancient History series has been updated for the 2018 Ancient History Stage 6 syllabus.

Antiquity 2, 4E Year 12 offers complete support for teachers and their students in 2018 and beyond, providing unparalleled depth and coverage in an easy-to-read, easy-to-understand and easy-to-master format.

Key features include:

• Explicit alignment to the Ancient History Stage 6 syllabus.
• In-depth and appropriately levelled content developed by trusted expert teachers.
• Simplified chapter structure with content organised into manageable double-page topics.
• Clear, unambiguous language supported by plenty of visuals.
• obook assess provides comprehensive student and teacher digital support, including answers to every question in the book, videos, teacher notes, exam preparation support and more.
• New content includes the latest scientific developments in the field, up-to-date case studies and source material, and a unique focus on ethics – including the contestability of history: ‘Who owns the bones?’
• Innovative and intuitive chapter features such as ‘Focus questions’, ‘Key concepts and skills’, ‘Learning goals’ and ‘Understanding and using the sources’
• ‘Check your learning’ questions’ for each topic allow students to review and expand on what they have learned.
• A ‘Profile’ feature included for each chapter allows for more in-depth learning about a historically significant person, event or phenomenon.

PART A: CORE STUDY
Chapter 1:    Cities of Vesuvius: Pompeii and Herculaneum

PART B: ANCIENT SOCIETIES
Chapter 2:    New Kingdom Egypt society to the death of Amenhotep III [obook only chapter]
Chapter 3:     Bronze Age: Minoan Crete
Chapter 4:     Spartan society to the Battle of Leuctra 371 BC

PART C: PERSONALITIES IN THEIR TIMES
Chapter 5:     Hatshepsut
Chapter 6:     Akhenaten
Chapter 7:     Xerxes
Chapter 8:     Agrippina the Younger

PART D: HISTORICAL PERIODS
Chapter 9:     New Kingdom Egypt to the death of Thutmose IV
Chapter 10:  New Kingdom Egypt from Amenhotep III to the death of Ramesses II [obook only chapter]
Chapter 11:   The Greek World 500–440 BC
Chapter 12:  The Augustan Age 44 BC–AD 14 [obook only chapter]
Chapter 13:   The Julio-Claudians AD 14–69

Note:  Table of contents subject to change prior to publication

Authors Toni Hurley and Christine Murray bring their years of classroom, curriculum and academic experience to the fourth editions of Antiquity and provide unparalleled depth and coverage in an easy-to-read, easy-to-understand and easy-to-master format.

Toni Hurley
Toni Hurley has 30 years of experience teaching History in NSW secondary schools. She is the current President of the NSW History Teachers Association and provides lectures for HSC students and professional learning for teachers as part of HTA’s Professional Development program. Toni teaches at Sydney University in the Teacher Education program. She was a member of the ACARA writing team who developed the Ancient History Australian Curriculum.

Christine Murray
Christine Murray is a retired secondary school history teacher, with 30 years of experience. She has been teaching at UTS in the Master of Teaching program.

This resource includes a physical copy of the Student book and access to obook assess: a cloud-based obook that students can use anywhere, anytime, on any device. 

obook assess provides students with access to:

• a complete digital version of the Student book with added note-taking and bookmarking functionality
• targeted instructional videos by some of Australia’s most experienced Ancient History teachers designed to help students prepare for assessment tasks and exams
• a range of interactive, auto-correcting, multiple-choice assess quiz questions.

This resource is supported by the Antiquity 2 Teacher obook assess (ISBN: 9780190303129).

Teacher obook assess is available FREE to booklisting schools or schools that purchase a class set of 25 or more copies. Contact your Oxford Education Consultant via www.oup.com.au/contact to discuss your requirements and request a demonstration.

obook assess is a cloud-based obook that teachers and students can use anywhere, anytime on any device.

obook assess provides teachers with access to:

• detailed course planners and teacher notes
• answers to all questions and assessment tasks in the Student book
• printable (and editable) practice exams
• a guide to the HSC exam.

With obook assess, teachers can:

• monitor student progress and results graphs
• set in-platform assessment tasks and the ability to create groups and tailor instructions to meet the different needs of abilities of different students
• view all available content and resources in one place.

Teachers will also have access to the following Student resources via obook assess:

• a complete digital version of the Student book with added note-taking and bookmarking functionality
• targeted instructional videos by some of Australia’s most experienced Ancient History teachers designed to help students prepare for assessment tasks and exams
• a range of interactive, auto-correcting, multiple-choice assess quiz questions.

Antiquity 2 sample chapter