Subject Area: History

Explores the origins, evolution, and decline of ancient Egyptian civilisation.

Themes may include:
- The origins and evolution of political and military institutions;
- Trade and intercultural contact;
- The origins and evolution of economic and social structures;
- Conservatism and innovation in Egyptian religion, art, and culture.

Also, explores the origins and development of Greek civilisation. Begins with a survey of the earliest eras before the Bronze Age, the Greek 'Dark Age', the Archaic period and the Classical period.

Themes may include:
- Historiography and archaeology;
- The political evolution of Greek states;
- Trade, colonisation, and intercultural relationships;
- Panhellenism and the evolution of Greek identity;
- The rise and failure of the polis and the rise of the kingdom of Macedon.

Studies may include Greek interaction with non-Greeks in the Hellenistic kingdoms following the aftermath of Alexander's conquests.