| S4 History |
Last
update -
09 novembre 2017 |
Official European
School History 4-5 Syllabus:
English,
French,
German. |
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Unit 3 - Medieval warfare |
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Key Questions |
Lessons |
Additional resources and external links |
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What was a medieval castle? |
Worksheet (PDF)
and stone keep castle
diagram.
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Top
100 castles
in the world website.
Recent 2014 archaeological excavation of a
motte and bailey castle in England.
Krak de Chevaliers castle in Syria under siege in 2014. |
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How were medieval castles defended? |
Worksheet (PDF)
and
PowerPoint. |
Outstanding
video about medieval castles and the reconstruction of
medieval trebuchets in a modern experiment to test castle
defences.
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| How were
medieval castles attacked? |
Worksheet (PDF)
and
PowerPoint.
Really useful series of
short video clips from Dan Snow's series Battle Castle.
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Powerful
video
reconstructing a medieval siege from the feature film Kingdom of
Heaven. How accurate is the film? See Alex von Tunzelmann's
review.
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The Treb Challenge. Excellent online
game introduces the engineering and physics of
trebuchet building. Crush the Castle
game which tests your skill in attacking castles and
in the
advanced version also building them. |
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How were medieval castles built? What were they
like to live in?
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Video and worksheet (PDF) |
Complete version of
the video |
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Who were the soldiers of medieval Europe? |
Worksheet (PDF) |
Terry Jones
video
on the medieval knight.
Video on
how to attack a medieval knight. Entertaining look at weapons
available to medieval infantrymen.
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Case study: The Norman conquest of England - How
did William of Normandy prepare for the invasion of England? |
Worksheet (PDF)
Khan Academy videos etc. on the Bayeux Tapestry |
The
full tapestry
online and the
Wikipedia
entry.
Make your own
virtual Bayeux Tapestry - great fun.
And this
version allows you to make your own jpeg images in the
tapestry style.
The tapestry
museum
in Bayeux.
Videos about the
Bayeux Tapestry
and the
Battle of Hastings
Video about
William the Conqueror
and and recent BBC series about the
The Normans.
BBC Medieval Realms
video on the Norman Conquest.
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How did William of Normandy win at Hastings? |
Worksheet (PDF) |
Videos about the
Battle of Hastings
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Video - Saul David explains why he thinks Harold
lost the Battle of Hastings. |
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How was Harold killed: a source work activity |
Worksheet (PDF)
Harold's death in the Bayeux Tapestry - Short
Time Team
video. |
Videos about the
Battle of Hastings
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| Why
did medieval people go on the Crusades? |
Worksheets: Parts
1,
2 and
3
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Beautiful High-Definition
BBC documentary
on medieval maps and what they reveal about medieval minds.
Video -
Documentary history of the Crusades - The
Crescent and the Cross.
Video
- Terry Jones explains the motivation of those who went on
Crusade.
Video
- The Knights Templar |
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B Test 3
Tuesday 16th February 2016 |
Revision
quiz |
