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Edexcel · GCSE · 1HI0
History
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HistoryContents
Contents
21 options, 233 subtopics
  1. Anglo-Saxon and Norman England, c1060-88135
  2. British America, 1713-83: Empire and Revolution114
  3. Conflict in the Middle East, 1945-95114
  4. Crime and Punishment in Britain, c1000-PRESENT165
  5. Early Elizabethan England, 1558-88123
  6. Henry VIII and His Ministers, 1509-40126
  7. London and the Second World War, 1939-4597
  8. Mao’s China, 1945-76175
  9. Medicine in Britain, c1250-PRESENT159
  10. Migrants in Britain, c800-PRESENT184
  11. Notting Hill, c1948-c197084
  12. Russia and the Soviet Union, 1917-41171
  13. and 9 more
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British America, 1713-83: Empire and RevolutionQuestions
British America, 1713-83: Empire and Revolution
Developments in colonial society
  1. Which groups of European migrants arrived in the mainland colonies in large numbers after 1713?
  2. Why did the colonial population rise so fast in the early eighteenth century?
  3. What was the backcountry?
  4. What was an indentured servant?
  5. Which people stood at the top of colonial society?
  6. Why did resentment grow between frontier farmers and the older coastal counties?
  7. How did the spread of new farms create conflict beyond the colonies themselves?
  8. Which crop was the most valuable export of Virginia and Maryland?
  9. What did the mainland colonies mainly sell to the sugar islands of the West Indies?
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British America, 1713-83: Empire and RevolutionAnswers
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Developments in colonial society
  1. Scots-Irish and German migrants arrived in growing numbers, alongside continued migration from England.
  2. Land was cheap and families were large, and heavy immigration added both free settlers and enslaved Africans.
  3. The belt of frontier land inland from the older coastal counties, where poorer newcomers cleared farms towards the Appalachians.
  4. Someone who agreed to work without wages for a fixed number of years in return for their passage across the Atlantic.
  5. A small elite of planters, big landowners and merchants, who also filled the assemblies and the courts.
  6. Frontier districts were given few seats in the assemblies and little defence, while the coast set the taxes and controlled land grants.
  7. Settlers took hunting grounds used by Indigenous nations, which brought raids on the farms and reprisals against Indigenous villages.
  8. Tobacco, which was shipped to Britain and re-sold across Europe.
  9. Grain, salted fish, timber and livestock, because the islands used almost all their land for sugar.
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Medicine in Britain, c1250-PRESENTQuestions
Medicine in Britain, c1250-PRESENT
Ideas about the cause of disease and illness, c1250–c1500
  1. What did most people in medieval England think God was doing when he sent an illness?
  2. Besides God, which supernatural being was blamed for illness in the Middle Ages?
  3. How was astrology used when a medieval physician made a diagnosis?
  4. What is the difference between a supernatural and a rational explanation of disease?
  5. What did the Theory of the Four Humours say caused illness?
  6. Name the four humours.
  7. Which ancient Greek doctor is credited with first setting out the humours?
  8. What was Galen’s Theory of Opposites?
  9. What was miasma believed to be?
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Medicine in Britain, c1250-PRESENTAnswers
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Ideas about the cause of disease and illness, c1250–c1500
  1. Punishing them for their sins, or testing the strength of their faith.
  2. The Devil, who was thought to send disease or take possession of a person, especially in cases of mental illness.
  3. He checked the position of the planets at the moment the patient was born or fell ill to decide what was wrong and when to treat it.
  4. A supernatural explanation blames God, the Devil or the stars, while a rational one looks for a cause in the body or the surroundings.
  5. Illness came when the four fluids of the body fell out of their proper balance.
  6. Blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile.
  7. Hippocrates.
  8. An imbalance should be corrected with something of the opposite quality, so a patient hot with fever was given cooling foods such as cucumber.
  9. Bad air given off by rotting rubbish, corpses and human waste, which was thought to poison anyone who breathed it in.
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The British Sector of the Western Front, 1914-18: Injuries, Treatment and the TrenchesQuestions
The British Sector of the Western Front, 1914-18: Injuries, Treatment and the Trenches
The British sector of the Western Front and the trench system
  1. In which two areas did the British hold their part of the trench lines from 1914?
  2. What is meant by a salient?
  3. Why was the ground the British held around Ypres so dangerous?
  4. Why did the British keep defending Ypres in spite of the losses?
  5. When did the fighting on the Somme begin, and how costly was its opening day?
  6. Why did the Somme fighting of 1916 matter so much to the medical services?
  7. What lay beneath the town of Arras that the army made use of in 1917?
  8. What was new about the fighting at Cambrai in November 1917?
  9. Which three lines of trench made up the British system?
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The British Sector of the Western Front, 1914-18: Injuries, Treatment and the TrenchesAnswers
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The British sector of the Western Front and the trench system
  1. In Flanders in Belgium and in northern France.
  2. A bulge of land pushed forward into enemy-held ground, which can be attacked from three sides at once.
  3. The Germans held the higher ground curving around it, so they could shell and observe the British from three sides.
  4. It stood in the way of a German advance on the Channel ports, through which all British men and supplies arrived.
  5. It began on 1 July 1916, and there were around 57,000 British casualties on that first day, of whom about 19,000 were killed.
  6. Wounded men arrived in numbers nobody had planned for, which overwhelmed the evacuation chain and forced it to be reorganised.
  7. A network of old quarries and caves, which tunnellers linked up so troops could be sheltered and moved forward unseen.
  8. Tanks were used in large numbers for the first time, and stored blood was available to treat the wounded.
  9. The front line, the support trench a short way behind it, and the reserve trench furthest back.
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