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OCR GCSE History revision notes

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  1. AO2Explain and analyse historical events and periods using second-order concepts (cause, consequence, change, continuity, similarity, difference, significance)
  2. AO3Analyse, evaluate and use sources (contemporary to the period) to make substantiated judgements in their historical context
  3. AO4Analyse, evaluate and make substantiated judgements about interpretations (academic and popular) of the past
  4. P1.CP.1Crimes, courts and punishments in medieval England, including trial by ordeal and the bloody code roots
  5. P1.CP.2Early modern: vagrancy, witch trials, the bloody code and transportation to America/Australia
  6. P1.CP.3Industrial reform: Robert Peel, the Metropolitan Police, prison reform (Pentonville) and abolition of the bloody code
  7. P1.CP.4Modern crime, policing and punishment: abolition of the death penalty (1965), modern police service, cyber-crime
  8. P1.PH.1Public health in medieval towns and the impact of the Black Death (c.1250–c.1500)
  9. P1.PH.2Living conditions, plague responses and quack medicine in early modern Britain (c.1500–c.1750)
  10. P1.PH.3Industrial Britain: cholera, miasma theory, Edwin Chadwick and the 1848/1875 Public Health Acts
  11. P1.PH.4The 20th century: NHS foundation 1948, mass vaccination, antibiotics, lifestyle campaigns and inequalities
  12. P2.D.1The Mughal Empire 1526–1707: founders, Akbar’s religious tolerance, Shah Jahan, Aurangzeb and decline
  13. P2.D.2The Spanish Conquistadors 1519–1551: Aztec and Inca empires, Cortés, Pizarro, motives, methods and consequences
  14. P2.D.3The First Crusade c.1070–1100: causes, the People’s Crusade, the Princes’ Crusade, Jerusalem 1099
  15. P2.D.4Living under Nazi rule 1933–1945: terror state, propaganda, opposition, the Holocaust
  16. P2.PS.1The Making of America 1789–1900: westward expansion, slavery, Civil War, Reconstruction, Plains Indians
  17. P2.PS.2Viking Expansion c.750–c.1050: raids and settlement, kingdoms in Britain and Scandinavia, conversion to Christianity
  18. P2.PS.4Personal Rule to Restoration 1629–1660: Charles I, Civil War, Cromwell’s rule, Restoration
  19. P3.D.1The Norman Conquest 1065–1087: succession crisis, 1066, feudalism, Domesday Book, castles, resistance and revolts
  20. P3.D.2The Elizabethans 1580–1603: religious settlement, plots, Spanish Armada, voyages of discovery and society
  21. P3.D.3Britain in Peace and War 1900–1918: Liberal reforms, women’s suffrage, WWI causes, home front and consequences