YEAR 8 HISTORY REVISION LIST: JUNE 2012

 

SECTION ONE: THE NORMAN CONQUEST

 

  1. Label and explain the key parts of a Motte and Bailey Castle.
  2. Draw and label a diagram of the Feudal System.
  3. Read the sources on Dermot MacMurrough carefully. Explain the difference between a Primary and Secondary source and why some sources are more reliable than others.

 

 

SECTION TWO: THE MEDIEVAL VILLAGE AND CHURCH

 

  1. Explain the role of the blacksmith, the miller and the carpenter in a medieval village.
  2. Explain the terms self-sufficient and tithebarn.
  3. Complete a table on Crop Rotation.
  4. Explain the need for Doom Paintings and the importance of the Priest in a medieval village.

 

 

SECTION THREE: THE NORMANS IN IRELAND

 

  1. Read the sources carefully.
  2. Explain why 1169 was such an important year in Irish History.
  3. Complete the table on Changes in Ireland between 1169 and 1500.
  4. Explain how the Normans have influenced the way we live today.

 

 

YEAR 9 HISTORY REVISION LIST: JUNE 2012

SECTION ONE: PLANTATIONS IN IRELAND

  1. Missing words and phrases e.g. Part of Ireland most fully under English control before plantations/Treaty that ended Nine Years War
  2. Map of Ulster. Label 9 counties and learn which county was planted by the London Companies.
  3. Be able to write 3 Results of Ulster Plantation. You could use Legacy part of Plantation of Ulster website for this.

 

 

SECTION TWO: KING AND PARLIAMENT

  1. Find out and learn what happened on these dates

1603/1605/1625/1642/1644/1645/1647/1649

  1. Know what is meant by the Divine Right of Kings
  2. Learn a definition of tyrant
  3. Think of 2 advantages and 2 disadvantages of the following types of sources to a historian:

eye-witness accounts/pictures/ official documents

  1. Read all you can about the type of man that Oliver Cromwell was in the blue “Investigating History” book and in the “Race to Rule” book.

Type of soldier/leader/ was he a fair or unfair ruler/what did he do in Ireland/ did all English people like him/ was he any better than or different than a King? You will be asked to write a longer type of answer to this using your own knowledge and sources on the test. When you are reading about him read the sources also. This will help you prepare for reading the various sources on the test.

 

 

 

Year 10 – revision list: June 2012

Section A – Definitions

Write the correct definition from the choices in the relevant space provided.

Section B – The War of Independence 1919-1921

Read the passage and answer the questions that follow. Ensure that you pay attention to the detail. Read the questions carefully and use the passage effectively – quoting it directly where relevant.

 

Section C – Discrimination in Northern Ireland

This section relies on your own knowledge. Use the handout “Distrust & discrimination in NI”.

Northern Irelandwas set up in 1921 to give a safe home to the Protestant Unionists, but in the years that followed they never felt secure. They were always afraid that they would be forced into aCatholicIrishRepublic…

  • Why did Unionists believe that theIrish Free Statewas controlled by the Catholic Church?
  • Why did Unionists feel thatNorthern Irelandwas insecure and threatened?
  • Learn how Catholics were discriminated against in the newNorthern Ireland.

 

Section D – Change in Northern Ireland 1965-85

This section relies on your own knowledge. Use the handout “Change in Northern Ireland”.

  • Terence O’Neill – PM
    • Things he did to improve relations with Catholics.
    • Results or consequences of the new PM’s gestures.
  • Why did the British army become involved in NI?
  • How did the provisional IRA come to be formed?
  • Why did relations between the catholic population and the army turn sour?
  • ‘Direct Rule’
  • Sunningdale Agreement 1973 – what was it and why did it fail?
  • Anglo-Irish Agreement of 1985 and why did this anger Unionists?