Year 7 History

Unit 1 How "dark" were the Dark Ages? Unit 2 11th-century Islamic worlds: how similar were the regions of the Islamic world? Unit 3 The Norman Conquest: how do we know about the impact of the Conquest on England? Unit 4 The Crusades: did Europeans go on crusade to capture the 'holy land'? Unit 5 Medieval women: what can we learn from Matilda about women in medieval England? Unit 6 England under Henry II: how successfully did Henry reassert royal authority? Unit 7 How was Baghdad connected to the wider world? Unit 8 Why did Europeans join the Crusades? Unit 9 Local history: how similar were medieval lives in Norwich? Unit 10 Medieval West Africa: why was medieval Mali so successful? Unit 11 Why did Kings struggle to rule England? Unit 12 How did the Mongols create a world Empire? Unit 13 How far did the Black Death change the medieval World? Unit 14 The Renaissance: what do the artefacts of the Renaissance tell us about it? Unit 15 What can we learn about the medieval World from the book of Margery Kempe? Unit 16 What does the life of Mansa Musa reveal about medieval Mali? Unit 17 Who held power in medieval towns?