Year 12 History Preparation Tasks
Paper One – The Crusades, 1095-1204
1) Here is a map showing the Middle East. On the map, label the following
key locations for the course:
a) Jerusalem
f) Damascus
b) Antioch
g) Constantinople
c) Acre
h) Aleppo
d) Edessa
i) Cyprus
e) Tyre
j) Tripoli
The Middle East in
the 12th century
2) Write a short biography for each of the following important characters
in the history of crusading:
a) Pope Urban II
b) Richard I (the Lionheart)
c) Saladin
3) Find out when these events happened and put them into chronological
order:

Jerusalem is captured by the knights of the First Crusade.
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Bernard of Clairvaux preaches the Second Crusade.

Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa drowns crossing the
River Saleph.
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The crusaders are destroyed at the Battle of Hattin.
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The knights of the First Crusade reach Constantinople.
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Constantinople is captured by the Fourth Crusade.
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Urban II launches the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont.
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Saladin recaptures Jerusalem from the crusaders.
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Antioch is captured by Bohemond of Taranto.
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Zenghi conquers the County of Edessa.
4) Define these key crusading terms:
a) Crusade
b) Pilgrimage
c) Penance
d) Byzantium
e) Papacy
f) Templars and Hospitallers
g) Levant
h) Outremer
i) Doge
j) Saracen
Paper Two – Anglo-Saxon England and the Anglo-Norman
Kingdom, 1053-1106
1) Here is a map showing southern England and northern France. On the map,
label the following key locations for the course:
a) London
f) Rouen
b) Battle of Hastings
g) Falaise
c) Pevensey
h) Bayeux
d) Dover
i) Caen
e) Canterbury
j) Dives
2) Write a short biography for each of the following important characters
in the history of Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman England:
a) King Edward the Confessor
b) King Harold II
c) Duke William of Normandy
3) Find out when these events happened and put them into chronological
order:

Duke William of Normandy defeats King Harold II at the Battle of
Hastings.

King Harold II defeats Harald Hardrada at the Battle of Stamford
Bridge.

Harold of Wessex swears an oath of loyalty to Duke William of
Normandy.
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Death of Edward the Confessor.

Duke William is crowned king of England.

William II is killed while hunting.
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Lanfranc becomes Archbishop of Canterbury.
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The Domesday book is compiled.
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The Norman invasion fleet lands at Pevensey.

King Henry I defeats his brother Robert at the Battle of
Tinchebrai .
4) Define these key medieval terms:

Demesne
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Fief

Homage
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Vassal

Feudalism
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The geld
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Motte and Bailey
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Villein
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Fyrd
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Huscarl
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