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History / Year 8 / Historical Knowledge and Understanding
Curriculum content descriptions
Continuity and change in society in ONE of the following areas: crime and punishment; military and defence systems; towns, cities and commerce (ACDSEH051)
Elaborations
- investigating different types of crime and punishment (for example, trial by combat as a privilege granted to the nobility; being hung, drawn and quartered as a punishment for heinous crimes such as treason, and the use of the ducking stool as a punishment for women) and in what ways the nature of crime and punishment stayed the same, or changed over time
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Cities, Fiefdoms, Armed forces, Security, Sentencing, Law, Middle Ages, Towns