Pupils who are secure will be able to:

• Explain terms such as unification and absolute power.
• Identify the skills and behaviours of leaders that contributed to achieving a goal.
• Describe and assess the impact of beliefs on change.
• Identify the significance of trade routes.
• Make deductions and inferences from sources.
• Apply criteria to decide and explain historical significance.
• Describe how and why interpretations are different.
• Make observations and explain historical achievements.

This unit prepares the children for the challenges of Key stage 3 History. It gives them the historical skills of inference, extracting information from sources, evaluating historical figures and the opportunity, like historians, to decide their criteria for significance. The activities are well-suited to children entering Key Stage 3.