Ancient Rome
Historical Skills
Aboriginal Australia
Murder Mystery
Wildcard History
100

This modern country is where you would have found the heart of the Roman Empire.

Italy

100

A source made during the time of the event being studied is called this.

Primary

100

The name of the traditional custodians and land of Canberra.

Ngunnawal (and Ngambri)

100

This suspect discovered the Senator's body.

Chisisi

100

This ancient Egyptian monument has the body of a lion and the head of a human.

Sphinx

200

This Roman leader was assassinated in 44 BCE.

Who is Julius Caesar?

200

A source’s point of view or attitude is called its ____________.

Perspective

200

This term refers to the very long period of human history before written records.

Deep Time

200

Caius was inspired by the teachings of this Roman Philosopher.

Seneca

200

This period in Europe is often associated with knights, castles and feudalism.

Middle Ages / medieval period

300

Roman society was divided into groups such as patricians, plebeians and enslaved people. This is called social ________.

Hierarchy

300

When a source only shows one side of an event or tries to make you think a certain way, it may have ______.

Bias

300

Aboriginal people are believed to have arrived on the Australian continent approximately this many years ago.

55-65'000 years ago

300

Titus was responsible for the construction of this Roman Achievement.

Aqueduct system

300

This famous Australian prime minister disappeared while swimming in 1967.

Harold Holt

400

This system allowed Romans to vote for leaders, although not everyone had equal power.

Republic

400

This word refers to organising events in order of time.

Chronology

400

Name one of the main threats to Aboriginal Heritage sites.

Climate Change

Vandalism

Construction & Mining

400

Which of the five major ancient civilisations (that were options for the Gods presentation) did not have a character from there in the story? (i.e. Cauis from ROme, Nailah from Egypt etc.)

Ancient China

400

This wall divided East and West Germany during the Cold War.

Berlin Wall

500

These were two brothers from Rome’s foundation myth, raised by a wolf.

Romulus & Remus

500

This is the word for an educated conclusion historians make using clues from a source, even when the source does not say something directly.

Inference

500

These are the two theories which explain why Australia's megafauna went extinct.

Humans - megafauna died out because they were over-hunted by the Indigenous Australian populations

Climate - driven by the disappearance of the continent’s vast inland lakes around 50,000 years ago.

500

This was the exact time the Senator was poisoned by the murderer.

11:22am

500

This ancient Greek historian is sometimes called the “Father of History.”

Herodotus

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