Year 7 History Core Knowledge
Battle of Hastings
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What year was the Battle of Hastings?
Who was the English Contender for the throne?
Who was the Norman Contender for the throne?
Who was the Viking Contender for the throne?
Why couldn't William sail to England when he wanted to?
Where did the English fight the Vikings?
Why were the English soldiers tired at the Battle of Hastings?
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Which army had the advantage of being on top of the hill in battle?
Who won the Battle of Hastings?
Which famous historical document records the Battle of Hastings?
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1066
Harold Godwinson
William of Normandy
Harald Hardrada
Wind in wrong direction
Stamford Bridge
They had quickly marched
from the north to fight.
English
French
Bayeux Tapestry
Medieval Monarchs
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What did William build in England to show his power?
What system did William use to rule England and ensure loyalty?
What is the name given to wooden castles?
Where did the king live in a castle?
What is the name of the stone castles with circular outer walls?
Why did Henry II asked to be whipped?
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Which King was forced to agree to the Magna Carta?
Which deadly disease arrived in England in 1348?
Which King was on the throne during the peasants revolt?
True or False: The Peasants revolt led to a rise in wages for the survivors
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Castles
Feudal System
Motte and Bailey
The Keep
Concentric
He accidentally had Thomas
Beckett killed.
King John
The Plague
Richard II
true
The Renaissance
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Who won the Battle of Bosworth?
How many wives did Henry VIII have?
What year did the Spanish Armada try to invade England?
What year was the gunpowder plot?
What was the target of the gunpowder plot?
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Which King was beheaded on 30th January 1649?
Which side did the Roundheads support during the English Civil War?
Which side did the Cavaliers support during the English Civil War?
What was Cromwell's title when he ruled England?
What holiday did Cromwell ban?
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Henry VII
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1588
1605
The King and the House of
Lords
Charles I
Parliament
The King
Lord Protector
Christmas
Year 7 History Core Knowledge
The Industrial Revolution
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What years did the Industrial Revolution happen?
In which country did the Industrial Revolution start?
What system was brought into farming to rotate crops in the 1600s in Norfolk?
What law ended the medieval tradition of strip farming?
Why did factory owners often prefer to employ children to work for them?
What was the minimum age a child had to be to work under the 1833 factory act?
Which metal is better in quality? Iron or Steel?
Which disease arrived in London during the industrial revolution and was spread by
dirty drinking water?
Which group violently opposed the arrival of looms in the factories?
Who invented the Steam Engine?
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1750 - 1900
Britain
Norfolk four course system
Enclosures Act 1750
They were cheap
Nine
Steel.
Cholera
The Luddities
Thomas Savery