Recent content by Don Mackey

Alina and Eric, Mr Mulligan is writing a letter of complain to the BOS about how crappy the question was for Tacitus, and Miniutti is going to be marking for ext History so she is going to complain in person. However I to have no idea about those archaelogical sources and Augustus's forum tells...

That exam sucked absolute wang. The first question wasn't that bad but it was annoyingly postmodern. The second question however sucked absolute balls. Due to the fact it was completely irrelevant to our case study. Asking about source interpretation, in our case study Tacitus it is not known...

Whilst I dont particularly feel like weighing into this debate the constant whinging about crime is so unnecessary. The 7 mark question was actually quite easy to answer. Plus if you aren't up to date so to speak with current social justice issues and especially juvenile justice issues then what...

That was the best exam that could have possibly been set. The Augustus question on the establishment and maintenance of his power was the exact same question that we got in the trial. For my other historical period I had prepared for Vespasian and the question we got was Evaluate the...

Hate to disagree with most people who felt hard done by but this exam was bloody easy. General essay questions easy multiple choice and short answer and the crime questions where fine. The way to have done the compare and contrast was to look at the disparities and similarities of the problems...

Doing two poems is not a suggestion in this case it is a necessity for coleridge. In the exam they will ask for your prescribed text and Coleridge is supposed to be TWO I even they think they say on the exam that you have to do two if its Coleridge. Try Lime Tree Bower and Frost at Midnight they...

As far as I know Doves and Hawks is actually a turn of phrase coined during the Cuban Missile Crisis. It is more than likely that it predates this crisis but I know that the generals in favour of a pre-emptive strike against the USSR and Cuba where known as Hawks and the members of the...

Detente is put forth almost simultaneously by both Kennedy and Krushchev. the catalyst for which was the Cuban Missile crisis of 1962. Essentially the doctrine of co-existence was in contravention to MAD and the skyrocketing military spending which was detrimental to both economies. It was also...

I agree Augutus is the most interesting of all the Romans we have him to thank for alot of the developments in the western world. He was also a consumate politician

My suggestion is to read something like Cold War by Painter or Fitzgerald if you can make the time. It puts all the events into context the reasons behind it ie superpower rivalry. By understanding the reasoning behind all the crises it will allow you to write more in depth on particular crises...

They push specific crises because they are Key features on the syllabus. But there is more than Cuba for example Afganistan 1980, Vietnam, Nicaragua, Chile, Iran, Egypt, Indonesia. It is a case of third world conflicts with superpower intervention behind each as well as ideological dogma behind...

I will have to stick to my guns on Gaius, his principate is simply irrelavent. His administration is not sound and his impact is almost nothing. We miss out on Tacitus' evaluation of his principate as his books are missing on him. The syllabus also says significant individuals in the period...

Essentially there will always be a Augustus question. It is unlikely that there will be another one on the constitutional development of his powers. When creating notes for this topic ignore Gaius there is not enough to ask about him and there has not yet been a single question on him since the...

Approach any question from Augustus with this in mind. What he created had no precendent in the Ancient world, it was necessary for the stability of the Roman world to create the principate. Dio Cassius saw the Principate as a middle path. Their was no diarchy as Mommsen suggests, Syme is...

Ancient History HSC Assessment 1 Sejanus and the Praetorian Guard Upon the death of Augustus there followed a period of nearly fifty years, in which the most important military and social development in Imperial Rome was the increased power of the Praetorian Guard and its prefect. According...