Course Classification 18
Course Framework 18
Course Developers 18
Course Length and Composition 20
Subject Rationale 26
Goals 27
Content 28
Teaching and Learning Strategies 28
Assessment 31
Student Capabilities 34
Unit Grades 34
Moderation 39
Modern Bibliography 40
Medieval and Renaissance Bibliography 72
Ancient History - Bibliography 76
Proposed Evaluation Procedures 86
Appendix A – Australian Curriculum Achievement Standards for A Ancient History 87
Australian Curriculum Achievement Standards for A Modern History 89
Australian Curriculum Achievement Standards for T Ancient History 91
Australian Curriculum Achievement Standards for T Modern History 94
Achievement Standards for M History Units 1- 4 98
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Course Title: History
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Classification: A
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Framework: History - 2008
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Course Area: 3010
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Unit Prefix
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MODERN HISTORY UNITS
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Revolutions in the Modern World
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1.0
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Modern Revolutions
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0.5
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War in the Modern World
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1.0
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Wars of the Modern Age
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0.5
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War and Resolution in the 20th Century
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0.5
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Dictatorships in the Modern World
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1.0
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Modern World Dictatorships
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0.5
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Conflict and Issues in the Modern World
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1.0
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Contemporary Conflict and Issues
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0.5
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Power, Politics and Ideology
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1.0
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The Art of Politics
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0.5
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Superpower Conflict
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0.5
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Encounters with the West
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1.0
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Struggles for Independence
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1.0
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Asian Encounters with the West
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0.5
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Independence Movements
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0.5
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Q
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Liberators and Revolutionaries
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1.0
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Ghandi and the Modern Protest
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0.5
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Mao and the Power of the Gun
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0.5
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Modern China from Manchu to Mao
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1.0
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From Manchu to Mao
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0.5
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Modern Japan – From Tokugawa to Today
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1.0
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Japan in the Modern Era
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0.5
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India in the Modern Era
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1.0
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Modern India
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0.5
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The Modern Middle East
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1.0
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The Middle East in the Modern World
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0.5
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The Killing Fields Conflict in Indochina
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1.0
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The Killing Fields
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0.5
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Britain in the Victorian Age
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1.0
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Russia in the Modern World
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1.0
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Russia from Tsar to Stalin
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0.5
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Post-Stalinist Russia
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0.5
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Manifest Destiny: USA Growth to 1900
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1.0
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America Ascendant: The USA from 1900
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1.0
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Foundations of the United States
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1.0
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The United States: The New Nation
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1.0
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The USA: A World Power
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1.0
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USA: Changing Perspectives since WW II
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1.0
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The Sixties
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1.0
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The Decade of Dissent
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The Native and African American Experience
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1.0
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The Native American Experience
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0.5
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The African American Experience
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Australian Migrations
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1.0
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Australia: Transition to Nationhood
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Australia – First World War & Its Impact
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0.5
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Australia – Depression to War
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0.5
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Australia in the Modern World
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1.0
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Lairs, Louts, Lasses and Larrikins
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1.0
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Anthropology of Gender
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1.0
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Dark and Bloody Ground
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1.0
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Millennium: Disappearing Worlds
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1.0
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History of Western Thought
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Myth and Magic
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Interwar Peace
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Q
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The Great Depression
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0.5
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The American Civil War
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0.5
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Civil Rights and Protest
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World War One and Modern Revolutions
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1.0
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Republic to Reich and World Was Two in Europe
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Superpower Conflict and the Killing Fields
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Australia and Conflict in the Modern World
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Interwar Peace and the Great Depression
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Monarchies in the East and West 1066-1566
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1.0
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ANCIENT HISTORY UNITS
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The Emergence of Humans
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Paleo-anthropology
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Beginnings of Humankind
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Emergence of Human Culture
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Hunter Gatherers in History
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Archaeology of Neolithic Humans
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The Land of the Pharaohs
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The Land of the Nile
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0.5
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Ancient Mediterranean and Mesopotamia
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Greece to the Persian Wars
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The Aegean in the Late Bronze Age
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0.5
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Q
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The Persian War
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0.5
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Athens to Alexander
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1.0
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The Age of Alexander
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0.5
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The Roman Republic
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1.0
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The Glory that was Rome
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0.5
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Q
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The Roman Revolution
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0.5
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The Roman Empire
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1.0
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Rome in the Age of Emperors
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The Roman Revolution – Pompey to Augustus
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1.0
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Heroism to Hellenism – Ancient Greece
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1.0
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MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE HISTORY UNITS
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The Dark Ages
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1.0
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Western Europe in The Dark Ages
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The Dark Ages Illuminated
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0.5
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High Middle Ages
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1.0
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Crusades
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Chaos, Catastrophe and Consolidation
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0.5
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Challengers from the East and Crusaders
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1.0
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Challengers from the East
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The Renaissance
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1.0
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Death, Discovery and Renaissance
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Death, Disorder and Renaissance
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Medieval Discovery
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0.5
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Robin Hood, King Arthur and Romance
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Robin Hood
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0.5
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King Arthur and Romance
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Blood, Lust and Persecution
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Rebuilding, Renewing & Reforming England
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England and the Golden Age of Elizabeth
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0.5
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Dragon Lords and Sacred Warriors
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1.0
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Dragon Lords in Medieval China
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Sacred Warriors of Feudal Japan
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Shang to Tang Dynasty
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1.0
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Indus Valley Civilisation to Pataliputra
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1.0
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Negotiated Study Unit
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0.5
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Q
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Independent Research Unit
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The Kingdom of Sicily 1130 - 1302
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1.0
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Dynasties and Rulers
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Society and Economy
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Christianity c.500-1300
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The Fatimids 909-1171
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