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Ancient Shapes - Ancient Roman & Medieval Artefacts over 1000 years old
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Ancient Shapes specialises in taking ancient artefacts and turning some into attractive jewellery, or placing them in frames for display on your wall.
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Many items are available on our website, each unique and ancient.  Rings, buckles, keys, brooches and broken bronze artefacts are also displayed.

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Roman / Medieval Ancient Relic Education Display
This ancient artefact display contains a number of great looking ancient artefacts, in a unique glass case (22cm x 28cm).  The ancient artefacts included in this display case, where the glass lid can be removed for personal inspection, are genuine and guaranteed to be over 1000 years old.  It is one thing to see some 1000-year-old artefacts behind a glass case, but nothing beats the experience of touching such ancient items.
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Each case displays a:

  • Roman bronze coin
  • Iron arrowhead
  • Roman bronze brooch fragments
  • Horse buckles
  • Ancient bronze artefacts
We have included five reference sheets to explain each arefact group.  We have priced this item at a very reasonable cost of only $99, which includes post and insurance in Australia.
For a great bargain visit our website at http://www.ancientshapes.com.au, email paul@ancientshapes.com.au, phone 0423193427, or mail to PO Box 2165, Carlingford NSW 2118.  All items are sourced from Europe and guaranteed genuine.
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QHTA Teaching Resources for Sale

QHTA Publications & Materials for Sale

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Item No. 1 Athenian Democracy - Triumph or Folly? This is a thirty page booklet of source material with questions, connected by explanatory text. It is an inquiry based approach to the development of Athenian democracy, its characteristics, and the way it functioned during the fifth century BC.
Cost: $8.80 single copy; $4.40 for 15 or more (plus postage - see below)

Item 2: The Breakdown of the Roman Republic - The path of Violence. This is a thirty page booklet of source material with questions, connected by explanatory text. It is an inquiry based approach to the problems Rome faced during the second and first centuries BC and the impact of these on the Republican government.
Cost: $8.80 single copy; $4.40 for 15 or more (plus postage - see below)

Item No. 3 The Antiquities Museum - Looking at Evidence. This is an activities booklet of source material with questions, connected by explanatory text. It provides a range of activities for students visiting the Antiquities Museum at the University of Queensland.
Cost: $3.30 single copy; $1.65 for 15 or more (plus postage - see below)

Item No. 4 The Depression Decade. This is a booklet containing a series of articles on the Depression in Australia and provides some interesting observations on various aspects of the Depression in Australia and its effects on Australian society.
Cost: $6.60 (plus postage - see below)

Item No. 5 Women in Ancient Society. This is a comparative inquiry approach booklet of about 30 pages with primary sources, connecting text and questions based on the sources. The emphasis is on Ancient Greece and Rome but there is material on Egypt and some Near Eastern Societies.
Cost: $8.80 single copy; $4.40 for 15 or more (plus postage - see below)

Item No. 6 Classical Studies for Schools. These are sets of primary source materials with an accompanying teacher's guidebook on Augustus, Alexander the Great, Roman Social Life, and Athenian Social Life. Teacher's resource on Homer's Odyssey.
Cost: $8.80 for each primary source book; $6.60 for each Teacher's Guide; $49.50 for the whole set of 9 books (plus postage - see below)

Item No. 7 La Trobe University History Series. These are primary source books with accompanying text and questions. They have suggestions for use and follow up resources in the back. The come in the following titles: Nazi Germany, Stalin's Russia, Australia's Refugee Immigrants 1954-1951, Colonial Virginia 1680-1740, The Chinese on the Australian Goldfields, Australia and Vietnam, Work and Society: The Impact of the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions on Britain, The Civil Rights Movement in the American South 1945-1968, South Africa: nationalism in Conflict.
Cost: $13.20 (plus postage - see below)

Item No. 8 Family Quest 1. This is a computer simulated historical inquiry focusing on Family History. Junior students, IBC.
Cost: $71.50 (plus postage - see below)

Item No. 9 Living in Nazi Geramny. This is an interactive text for students where the reader determines the direction of the plot.
Cost: $16.50 single copy; $13.20 each for 10 or more copies (plus postage - see below)

Item No. 10 Choices for the 21st Century Series are designed to make complex international issues understandable and meaningful for students. Each Choices unit includes student readings, a framework of policy options, suggested lesson plans, and resources for structuring cooperative learning, role-plays, and simulations. They come in the following titles: Keeping the Peace in an Age of Conflict: Debating the U.S. Role, The Role of the United States in a Changing World,Ending the War against Japan: Science, Morality and the Atomic Bomb Coming to Terms with Power: U.S. Choices after World War II
Cost: $27.50 (plus postage - see below)
The Limits of Power: The United States In Vietnam, Crisis, Conscience, And Choices: Weimar Germany And The Rise Of Hitler, In The Shadow Of The Cold War: The Caribbean and Central America in U.S. Foreign Policy, After The Cold War: The U.S. Role In Europe's Transition
Cost: $38.50 (plus postage - see below)

Item No. 11 Family History Mystery This is a self contained set of print materials which allows students to work through a simulated historical inquiry at their own pace. It consists of some activity cards which can be freely copied from the web and a set of historical sources. Featuring a 'Quick Start' feature for teachers these 60 A4 pages of materials are ready to use next lesson with Years 8 or 9 students. They will motivate students and they are specifically linked to some of the new SOSE syllabus core learning outcomes. Worksheets, action cards, outcomes and assessment suggestions are available now, without cost. Sources are available in printed form for purchase.
Cost: $55.00 (plus postage - see below)

Item No. 12 Examining the Evidence - History, Archaeology and Science. This is a 304 page book with 14 chapters, including chapters on Archaeology and Science, Archaeology of Aboriginal Australia, Underwater Archaeology, Jericho, Celts, Boudicca, The Iceman, The Terracotta Army, Women of Athens, Livy.
Cost: $13.20 (plus postage - see below)

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3-5 books : $7.00
6+ books : $10.00

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