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Edexcel · A-Level · 9HI0
History
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6,832 questions
HistoryContents
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40 options, 688 subtopics
  1. The Crusades, c1095-1204177
  2. England, 1509-1603: Authority, Nation and Religion160
  3. Britain, 1625-1701: Conflict, Revolution and Settlement159
  4. Britain, c1785-c1870: Democracy, Protest and Reform158
  5. Russia, 1917-91: from Lenin to Yeltsin160
  6. In Search of the American Dream: the Usa, c1917-96161
  7. Germany and West Germany, 1918-89159
  8. Britain Transformed, 1918-97158
  9. Anglo-Saxon England and the Anglo-Norman Kingdom, c1053-1106163
  10. England and the Angevin Empire in the Reign of Henry Ii, 1154-89160
  11. Luther and the German Reformation, c1515-55160
  12. The Dutch Revolt, c1563-1609160
  13. and 28 more
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England, 1509-1603: Authority, Nation and ReligionQuestions
England, 1509-1603: Authority, Nation and Religion
The Tudor monarchs
  1. Who became England's first ruling queen in 1553 after Lady Jane Grey's brief claim?
  2. Whom did Mary I marry in 1554, alarming many of her subjects?
  3. Which queen came to the throne in 1558?
  4. What personal qualities made Henry VIII effective as a young king?
  5. How did Henry VII's reputation differ from his son's?
  6. Why was Edward VI's accession a problem for stable government?
  7. Why was a female ruler thought a difficulty in the sixteenth century?
  8. How did Mary I's marriage sharpen anxieties about a queen regnant?
  9. How did Elizabeth I turn her gender to political advantage?
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England, 1509-1603: Authority, Nation and ReligionAnswers
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The Tudor monarchs
  1. Mary I.
  2. Philip II of Spain (then Prince Philip).
  3. Elizabeth I.
  4. Physical presence, learning, magnificence and skill at arms, which fitted contemporary expectations of kingship and won early popularity, though he left the detail of government to ministers.
  5. He was respected rather than loved, remembered for financial rigour and suspicion of the nobility, where Henry VIII cultivated display and chivalric splendour.
  6. He was nine years old, so power passed to a regency council and then to a Protector, which invited faction and made policy hostage to whichever noble controlled the king.
  7. Contemporary assumptions held that women could not lead armies or command obedience, and that a queen's husband would rule through her, which raised the danger of foreign control.
  8. Marriage to Philip of Spain raised the prospect of England being drawn into Habsburg wars and ruled from abroad, and the marriage treaty had to limit Philip's powers explicitly.
  9. She refused to marry, presenting herself as wedded to the realm, and cultivated the imagery of the Virgin Queen, so that the loyalty owed to a monarch became something closer to devotion.
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Mao’s China, 1949-76Questions
Mao’s China, 1949-76
The new power structure
  1. What was the PLA?
  2. What organising principle concentrated power at the top?
  3. Who led the Chinese Communist Party and the new state?
  4. How were party, state and army related?
  5. What did China's 1954 constitution establish?
  6. How was China administered after 1949?
  7. What was the role of the cadres?
  8. What was the danwei system?
  9. What was the hukou system?
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Mao’s China, 1949-76Answers
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The new power structure
  1. The People's Liberation Army, the CCP's armed forces.
  2. Democratic centralism.
  3. Mao Zedong.
  4. The CCP directed everything; state bodies executed party decisions, and the PLA was a party army with political commissars at every level.
  5. A National People's Congress as the formal legislature, with Mao as Chairman of the People's Republic and Zhou Enlai as Premier, while real power stayed with the party.
  6. Through six regional bureaus at first, then provinces, counties and villages, staffed by cadres answerable upwards to the party rather than to local people.
  7. Party officials at every level who implemented campaigns, ran meetings, allocated resources and reported upwards, and whose zeal or corruption shaped how policy was felt.
  8. The work unit, which provided employment, housing, rations, permission to marry and travel, and so gave the party control over almost every aspect of urban life.
  9. Household registration introduced in 1958, which tied people to their place of residence and prevented peasants moving to the cities.
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Britain: Losing and Gaining an Empire, 1763-1914Questions
Britain: Losing and Gaining an Empire, 1763-1914
Changing patterns of trade, 1763-1914
  1. What were the main strands of Britain's trade in the later eighteenth century?
  2. What did the adoption of free trade in 1842–46 involve?
  3. Why did ending the old shipping monopoly in 1849 matter?
  4. What was the effect of the 1807 abolition of the slave trade on trade patterns?
  5. How did industrialisation change Britain's trade?
  6. What was the triangular trade?
  7. How important was the slave trade to British commerce in 1763?
  8. How did the pattern of British exports change after 1800?
  9. What was the significance of coal exports?
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Changing patterns of trade, 1763-1914
  1. Textiles and coal, the Atlantic traffic in enslaved people, and expanding commerce with India, the Americas and the eastern seas.
  2. Peel's reduction and removal of many tariffs, culminating in the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846, opening Britain to cheaper imports.
  3. It ended the requirement that trade be carried in British ships, embracing free trade and open competition in shipping.
  4. It ended British participation in the slave trade and pushed merchants and the navy towards other commerce, including 'legitimate' trade with Africa.
  5. It made Britain a mass exporter of manufactured goods, especially textiles and coal, and an importer of raw materials and food.
  6. Manufactured goods from Britain to West Africa, enslaved people from Africa to the Americas, and sugar, tobacco and cotton back to Britain.
  7. Central: British ships carried more enslaved Africans than any other nation, and Bristol, Liverpool and Glasgow were built on the Atlantic system.
  8. From re-exported colonial produce towards manufactured cotton textiles, then iron, machinery, coal and, later, capital and services.
  9. By 1914 coal was Britain's largest export by volume, fuelling steamships and foreign industry and providing return cargoes for ships bringing food and raw materials.
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