Core Knowledge and Skills

• Medieval causes and cures for disease, including the Four Humours
• Stagnation in the fight against disease across the Medieval and Renaissance eras
• The key turning points in development during the Industrial era, including Germ Theory
• Modern developments in the fight against disease, including penicillin

Enriched Knowledge

• Church control of medical knowledge
• The influence of Islamic medicine in Britain
• Opposition to medical progress, including anti-vaccination activists

Key Vocabulary

• Causes
• Cures
• Superstition
• Science
• Stagnation
• Progress

Core Knowledge and Skills

• Surgical methods used in the Medieval, Renaissance and Industrial eras
• The role of Renaissance pioneers in the advance of anatomical knowledge
• Solution to the three big problems of surgery: pain, blood loss and infection
• The impact of warfare and the development of technology on surgery in the 20th Century

Enriched Knowledge

• Religious and social opposition to the Renaissance pioneers
• The role that warfare has played in the acceleration of surgical developments
• The dubious role of barber surgeons in surgery across the centuries

Key Vocabulary

• Anatomy
• Dissection
• Warfare
• Technology
• Anesthetic

Core Knowledge and Skills

• Stagnation in public health across the Medieval and Renaissance eras
• Decline in public health in the early Industrial Age
• The role of social reformers in the advance of public health
• The significance of the NHS
• Modern-day public health concerns

Enriched Knowledge

• Impact of epidemics on society: Black Death, Great Plague, and the Cholera outbreak
• The impact of ‘laissez-faire’ on the poor
• The significance of social reformers

Key Vocabulary

• Peasant
• Hierarchy
• Church
• Archbishop
• Superstition

Core Knowledge and Skills

• Saxon society in 1066
• The succession crisis of 1066
• Preparations for battle by the claimants
• The battles of 1066: Fulford Gate, Stamford Bridge, Hastings
• Norman methods of control, including castles and Harrying of the North

Enriched Knowledge

• Diversity in Saxon society, including geopolitical influence of the Vikings
• The nature of medieval kingship
• Methods of conquest and control: violence and intimidation

Key Vocabulary 

• Saxon
• Norman
• Conquest
• Succession
• Claimant

Core Knowledge and Skills

• Changes to social hierarchy with the feudal system
• Peasant life and impact of Norman control
• Growth of towns and trade
• Norman aristocracy and their role in the localities
• Changes to education and language

Enriched Knowledge

• Hierarchy to control the poor
• Methods of oppression by a foreign power
• Influence of French on the English language

Key Vocabulary

• Hierarchy
• Feudal
• Peasant
• Aristocracy
• Merchant
• Vernacular

Core Knowledge and Skills

• Role of the medieval church and church hierarchy
• Lanfranc and William’s reforms of the Church
• Monastic life and the Norman reforms
• The relationship between the king, his archbishops and the pope
• William Rufus’ relationship with the Church

Enriched Knowledge

• The significance of religion to people’s lives
• Church control of society
• Methods of ‘moral’ reform within the Church
• The significance of the relationship between Church and State in the Medieval Age

Key Vocabulary

• Papacy
• Archbishop
• Reform
• Corruption
• Monasticism
• Excommunication

Core Knowledge and Skills

• The Kaiser’s foreign policy aims (Weltpolitik)
• The impact of Weltpolitik on Germany’s industry and the growth of the SPD
• The abdication of the Kaiser and the formation of Weimar
• Opposition to Weimar
• The lasting impact of the ToV and WW1 on Germany
• Weimar’s Golden Years

Enriched Knowledge

• The importance (and pitfalls) of democracy
• Economic boom linked to cultural boom
• Radicalisation and separatism

Key Vocabulary

• Kaiser
• Autocracy
• Democracy
• Weltpolitik
• Empire
• Proportional representation
• Constitution
• Communism
• Socialism
• Nationalism
• Putsch
• Ruhr

Core Knowledge and Skills

• The Depression and its impact on Germany
• Reichstag Fire and the Enabling Act
• The Nazi Police State
• Life in Nazi Germany
• Experiences of women & youth in Nazi Germany
• The role of the Church
• Persecution of ‘enemies’ and the road to Holocaust
• The Final Solution

Enriched Knowledge

• Economic decline linked to polarization and radicalization
• Censorship and propaganda
• Race theory and the alienation of ‘the other’ in society

Key Vocabulary

• Wall Street
• Totalitarianism
• Reichstag
• Propaganda
• Autarky
• Genocide
• Dictatorship
• SA
• SS
• Einsatzgruppen
• Wannsee

Core Knowledge and Skills

• The Peacemakers and their intentions at Versailles
• Reactions to Versailles
• The creation of the League of Nations and its role in maintaining peace
• Crises facing the League in the 1920s; successes and failures
• Treaties made outside of the League

Enriched Knowledge

• The morality of punishing a nation for its leaders’ mistakes
• The importance and pitfalls of self-determination in Central and South Europe

Key Vocabulary

• Diktat
• Reparations
• Clause
• Peacemakers
• Alliance
• Treaty

Core Knowledge and Skills

• The Wall Street Crash and its impact on peacekeeping
• Crises facing the League in the 1930s
• Hitler’s Aims
• Hitler’s Road to War and actions against the Treaty of Versailles
• Policy of Appeasement
• The Nazi-Soviet Pact and the invasion of Poland

Enriched Knowledge

• The link between economic depression, rise of nationalism and expansionist policies
• The moral debate about the failure of the Allied powers to prevent WW2

Key Vocabulary

• Anschluss
• Volksdeutsche
• Lebensraum
• Communism
• Pact
• Treaty
• Appeasement
• Sudetenland
• Rhineland

Core Knowledge and Skills

• Health and the People
• Norman Conquest
• Democracy and Dictatorship
• Interwar years
• Precise breakdown of topics TBC

Enriched Knowledge

• Paper 1: We will be drawing together common themes linked to power, control, conquest and economic prosperity across units.

Core Knowledge and Skills

• Health and the People
• Norman Conquest
• Democracy and Dictatorship
• Interwar years
• Precise breakdown of topics TBC

Enriched Knowledge

• Paper 2: We will be drawing together common themes linked to social responsibility, rural vs urban lifestyle and government responsibility