| This unit examines the development of civilisations and societies in various parts of the world, including Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, China, the Americas, the Pacific Islands (including the Torres Strait Islands), Persia, other parts of the Near East, Greece, Rome, and elsewhere in the Mediterranean Sea region. Students explore how these different civilisations and societies around the world interacted and influenced each other, often peacefully and frequently not, and how they sometimes developed independently. The unit spans the rise and fall of empires, as well as the creation of less formal, but nonetheless binding systems resulting from migration, the spread of languages and diffusion of technology and culture. The unit enables students to evaluate how the development of social, political and religious organisation and thought have helped create the modern world. |
