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AQA AS-Level History 7042
1A The Age of the Crusades, c1071–1204
Topic overviewThe Church, the Seljuk Turks and Byzantium before the CrusadesManzikert and the Call of the First CrusadeThe First Crusade: Motives and CampaignThe Kings of Jerusalem and the Early Crusader StatesThe Knights Templar and the HospitallersThe Crusader States, Byzantium and the Latin WestZengi and the Fall of EdessaThe Second Crusade
1B Spain in the Age of Discovery, 1469–1598
Topic overviewThe Kingdoms of Iberia in 1469Ferdinand, Isabella and the NobilityForeign Policy, Society and the Church under Ferdinand and IsabellaThe Inquisition, the Jews and the Fall of GranadaThe Alpujarras Revolt, the Economy and Overseas ExpansionThe Casa de Contratacion, Navarre and Spain by 1516The Inheritance of Charles VImperial Ideology and Conciliar GovernmentCharles V's Wars, Absences and Religious PolicyThe Conquest of the Americas and the Price RevolutionCharles V's Abdication and Spain by 1556
1C The Tudors: England, 1485–1603
Topic overviewHenry VII's Claim to the ThroneHenry VII's Councils and GovernmentHenry VII's Finances, the Nobility and Foreign PolicyPretenders and Rebellions under Henry VIISociety and the Economy under Henry VIIReligion, Humanism and the Arts under Henry VIIHenry VIII: Character and AimsWolsey, Cromwell and the Break with RomeThe Dissolution, Foreign Policy and Henry VIII's WivesThe Ranks of Tudor SocietyThe Pilgrimage of Grace, Wales and the Henrician EconomyHumanism and Religious Change under Henry VIII
1D Stuart Britain and the Crisis of Monarchy, 1603–1702
Topic overviewThe Political Nation, Divine Right and James ICourt, Crown Finance and Religious Division, 1603-1629Disputes between Crown and ParliamentArminianism, Puritanism and the Revenues of the Personal RuleThe Personal Rule, the Long Parliament and the Road to WarThe First Civil WarThe Second Civil War and the LevellersThe Army, Parliament and the Regicide
1E Russia in the Age of Absolutism and Enlightenment, 1682–1796
Topic overviewRussian Society and Government in 1682The Succession Crisis of 1682 and the StreltsyPeter's Western Interests, the Great Embassy and St PetersburgPeter I's Early Economic, Political and Military ReformsOpposition to Peter's Reforms and the Streltsy RevoltThe Azov Campaigns and the Battle of NarvaThe Poll Tax and State MonopoliesThe Holy Synod, the Senate and Church ReformThe Colleges, Provincial Government and the Table of RanksWesternisation, Opposition and Peter's Legacy by 1725The Great Northern War and Peter's Foreign PolicyThe Service State under Peter the Great
1F Industrialisation and the People: Britain, c1783–1885
Topic overviewThe British Political System in 1783Pitt the Younger and His MinistriesPitt's Financial and Trade ReformsEarly Industrialisation: Textiles, Iron and SteamEnclosure and Agricultural ChangeSocial Classes, Working Conditions and the Old Poor LawThe French Revolution and British RadicalismThe Irish Rebellion of 1798 and the Act of UnionThe Wars with France and the Home FrontLuddism and Britain by 1812Lord Liverpool, the Corn Laws and PeterlooCanning, Wellington and Catholic EmancipationTextiles, Iron, Coal and the Common LandsUrbanisation and Working-Class DiscontentRadicals, Abolitionists and the Rise of MethodismThe Great Reform Act of 1832
1G Challenge and Transformation: Britain, c1851–1964
Topic overviewParliament and the Franchise before 1867The Second Reform Act, Gladstone and DisraeliThe Workshop of the World, Free Trade and Agricultural DepressionClass and Region in Victorian BritainThe Domestic Reforms of Gladstone and DisraeliIreland, the Great Famine and the Land QuestionGladstone's Home Rule Bill and Its OpponentsConservative Dominance before 1905Socialism and the Birth of the Labour PartyNew Liberalism, the People's Budget and the Parliament ActThe Great Depression, Industrial Decline and Tariff ReformNew Unionism, the Great Unrest and Women's SuffrageLiving Standards, Poverty and the Liberal Welfare ReformsThe Home Rule Movement and the Irish Party
1H Tsarist and Communist Russia, 1855–1964
Topic overviewAutocracy and Serfdom in 1855The Emancipation of the Serfs and Alexander II's ReformsReform, Reaction and the Death of Alexander IIPobedonostsev and RussificationLiberals, Populists and the Tsarist PoliceEconomy and Society after EmancipationNicholas II, Bloody Sunday and the Fundamental LawsThe Dumas, Stolypin and Witte's IndustrialisationWorkers, Peasants and the Grain TradeLiberals, Socialist Revolutionaries and MarxistsThe First World War and the February RevolutionLenin's Return and the October RevolutionLenin's Ideology, War Communism and KronstadtStalin's Rise and the Power Struggle
1J The British Empire, c1857–1967
Topic overviewThe Suez Canal and the Occupation of EgyptThe Indian Mutiny and the Government of India ActThe Scramble for Africa and the Chartered CompaniesMissionaries, the Civilising Mission and Party Attitudes to EmpireThe Boers, the Zulu War and Southern AfricaExpansion in Africa and the Government of IndiaLord Cromer and the Veiled Protectorate in EgyptIndirect Rule and the Entente CordialeChamberlain, Tariff Reform and Cecil RhodesThe Justifications for Empire and National EfficiencyExhibitions, Youth Movements and Popular ImperialismThe Boer War and the Union of South Africa
1K The Making of a Superpower: USA, 1865–1975
Topic overviewJohnson, Grant and Radical ReconstructionThe Redeemers and the Gilded Age PresidentsThe Post-Reconstruction South and Jim CrowThe Railroad Boom and Big Business in the Gilded AgeThe Closing of the Frontier and Gilded Age Foreign PolicyThe Populist Movement and the People's PartyProgressivism and Roosevelt's Square DealWilson's New Freedom and America's Economic RiseImmigration, Urban Growth and SegregationAmerican Imperialism and the War of 1898Neutrality and Entry into the First World WarAmerican Society and Industrial Power by 1920
1L The Quest for Political Stability: Germany, 1871–1991
Topic overviewThe States of the German Empire in 1871The Constitution of 1871: Bundesrat and ReichstagBismarck's Domestic PoliciesWilhelm II and WeltpolitikGerman Industrial Power before 1914The Burgertum and the Prestige of the EliteWorkers, Pressure Groups and Germany by 1914War, Revolution and the Weimar Constitution, 1914-1919Reparations, Putsches and the Crisis of 1923Stresemann, the Dawes Plan and Locarno
2A Royal Authority and the Angevin Kings, 1154–1216
2B The Wars of the Roses, 1450–1499
2C The Reformation in Europe, c1500–1564
Topic overviewPapal Supremacy and the Church HierarchySalvation and the Seven SacramentsCorruption, Humanism and Demands for Reform before 1517The Holy Roman Empire and Its ElectorsThe Imperial Diet, the Young Luther and the 95 ThesesThe Disputations, Luther's Theology and the 1520 TreatisesLuther in Print, Excommunication and the Diet of WormsKarlstadt, the Zwickau Prophets and Luther's ReturnZwingli, the Eucharist and the Knights' RevoltThe German Peasants' WarThe Swiss Reformation, the Kappel Wars and MarburgThe Diets of Speyer, the Augsburg Confession and Melanchthon
2D Religious Conflict and the Church in England, c1529–c1570
Topic overviewThe English Church and Its Wealth in 1529Humanism and the Call for Church ReformHenry VIII's Great MatterThe Reformation Parliament and the Break with RomeReformist and Conservative Factions at CourtFaction, Diplomacy and the DissolutionThe Reasons for and Effects of the DissolutionThe Pilgrimage of GraceThe Ten Articles, the Six Articles and the King's BookReligion and War in Henry VIII's Last Years
2E The English Revolution, 1625–1660
Topic overviewJames I's Legacy and Charles I's KingshipCharles I, Buckingham and the Petition of RightThe Personal Rule and Its MinistersLaud's Reforms and Protestant FearsThe Scottish Prayer Book and Thorough in IrelandPuritan Emigration, the National Covenant and the First Bishops' WarThe Bishops' Wars and the Recall of ParliamentCharles I and the Parliamentary Opposition in 1640John Pym and the Long ParliamentDeadlock, the Fall of Strafford and the Irish RebellionThe Attempt on the Five MembersThe Militia Ordinance and the Drift to WarThe Nineteen Propositions and the Outbreak of War
2F The Sun King: Louis XIV, France and Europe, 1643–1715
Topic overviewRichelieu and the Regency of Anne of AustriaMazarin, the Parlement and the FrondesWestphalia and the Treaty of the PyreneesThe Start of Personal Rule and France in 1661Louis XIV's Conception of KingshipThe Royal Council, the Intendants and VersaillesColbert, Mercantilism and the Royal AcademiesThe Huguenots and the Edict of FontainebleauGloire, Foreign Policy Aims and Louvois's ArmyThe Decline of Spain and Louis XIV's Wars to 1684
2G The Birth of the USA, 1760–1801
Topic overviewMercantilism, Salutary Neglect and the Colonies in 1760The Thirteen Colonies and the Impact of the Seven Years WarFrom the Proclamation of 1763 to the Boston Tea PartyThe Intolerable Acts of 1774The First Continental CongressCommon Sense and the Organisation of ResistanceGeneral Gage and the Road to LexingtonThe Declaration of Independence
2H France in Revolution, 1774–1815
Topic overviewLouis XVI and French AbsolutismThe Three Estates and Seigneurial RightsTaxation and the Weaknesses of the Ancien RegimeThe Philosophes and the EnlightenmentThe Financial Crisis of the Ancien RegimeCalonne and the Assembly of NotablesThe Crisis of 1788 and the Estates-GeneralThe Cahiers and the Opening of the Estates-GeneralThe National Assembly and the Fall of the BastilleThe Civil Constitution of the Clergy and the Constitution of 1791The Political Clubs, Varennes and the Fall of the MonarchyThe Founding of the RepublicThe Execution of Louis XVI, the Vendee and the Federalist RevoltThe Levee en Masse and the Coming of the TerrorThe Fall of the Factions and the Great TerrorThermidor and the Dismantling of the TerrorVendemiaire and the Directory
2J America: A Nation Divided, c1845–1877
Topic overviewFederalism and States' RightsThe Northern Economy by 1845Cotton, Plantations and the Southern EconomyThe Missouri Compromise and the Nullification CrisisManifest Destiny and the Compromise of 1850The Fugitive Slave Law, Abolitionism and Pro-Slavery ArgumentsThe Kansas-Nebraska Act and Bleeding KansasThe Formation of the Republican PartyDred Scott, the Lincoln-Douglas Debates and Harper's FerryThe Election of 1860, Secession and Fort Sumter
2K International Relations and Global Conflict, c1890–1941
Topic overviewHow Britain and France Made Foreign PolicyThe Economic and Military Strength of the Great PowersThe Scramble for Africa and Great Power RivalryBalkan Nationalism and Austria-HungaryThe Naval Race, the Arms Race and War PlansThe Moroccan CrisesThe Entente Cordiale and the Triple EntenteThe Decline of the Ottoman EmpireThe Bosnian Crisis of 1908The Balkan WarsSarajevo and the Austrian UltimatumMobilisation and the Schlieffen PlanThe July CrisisItaly, the USA and the Widening War
2L Italy and Fascism, c1900–1945
Topic overviewA Young Kingdom: North, South and the RisorgimentoThe Italian Monarchy and the Narrow FranchiseGiolitti and the Gentiloni PactIndustrial Growth, Socialism and Labour UnrestNationalism, Futurism and the Triple AllianceIntervention in 1915 and Italy's War AimsThe Isonzo Front and CaporettoThe Home Front and the Peace SettlementFiume and the Mutilated VictoryPost-War Crisis and Political InstabilityThe Biennio Rosso and the Fascist ResponseThe March on Rome and Mussolini's AppointmentWhy the Elites Accepted MussoliniFascist Ideology, the Ras and the Cult of the DuceThe Grand Council, the Acerbo Law and the Matteotti CrisisBuilding the Dictatorship, 1925-1926Corfu, Fiume and the Consolidation of Power
2M Wars and Welfare: Britain in Transition, 1906–1957
Topic overviewThe Liberal Landslide of 1906 and New LiberalismThe Lib-Lab Pact, Tariff Reform and the Edwardian EconomyEdwardian Class, Poverty and the People's BudgetThe Liberal Welfare ReformsThe Parliament Act, Women's Suffrage and Home RuleThe Labour Unrest of 1910 to 1914The Wartime Coalitions and the Liberal SplitThe War Economy, DORA and Post-War IndustryWomen's War Work, the Vote and ConscriptionThe War Poets, the Easter Rising and Irish IndependenceLiberal Decline, the First Labour Government and BaldwinThe Return to Gold, the Coal Crisis and the General StrikeThe Divided Regions, Women and Culture in the 1920sThe Flapper Vote and the 1929 Election
2N Revolution and Dictatorship: Russia, 1917–1953
Topic overviewTsarism and the Strain of War by 1917The February RevolutionThe Provisional Government and the April ThesesThe October RevolutionThe First Decrees, the Constituent Assembly and the Leaders of 1917The Cheka and the Rise of One-Party RuleBrest-Litovsk and the Causes of the Civil WarTrotsky and the Building of the Red ArmyWhy the Reds Won the Civil WarBolshevik Social Reform, War Communism and the Red TerrorTambov and KronstadtThe New Economic PolicyForeign Intervention, the Comintern and Soviet DiplomacyLenin's Death, His Testament and the Contenders for PowerPermanent Revolution and Socialism in One CountryThe Defeat of the Oppositions and the Great TurnThe Stalin Cult and Soviet Foreign Policy in the 1920s
2O Democracy and Nazism: Germany, 1918–1945
Topic overviewThe Collapse of 1918 and the Kiel MutinyThe Weimar Constitution and the Terms of VersaillesThe Military Terms of Versailles and German ReactionsThe Ruhr Occupation and the Hyperinflation of 1923The Spartacist Uprising and the FreikorpsThe Ruhr Crisis, the Courts and the Munich PutschThe Munich Putsch and Weimar's CoalitionsStresemann and the Dawes PlanWeimar Culture: Bauhaus, Art and TheatreHindenburg's Election and the Golden YearsStresemann's Foreign Policy and LocarnoThe Wall Street Crash and the German BanksBruning's Deflation and the Nazi Electoral BreakthroughNazi Propaganda, the SA and Nazi AppealThe Divided Left, Hindenburg and PapenThe Prussian Coup and Hitler's Refusal of OfficeThe Reichstag Fire, the Enabling Act and the End of DemocracyGleichschaltung and the One-Party StateThe Night of the Long Knives
2P The Transformation of China, 1936–1997
Topic overviewJapanese Encroachment and the GuomindangThe Encirclement Campaigns, the Long March and Mao's IdeologyYan'an, the Xi'an Incident and the Second United FrontThe Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945The Race for Territory and the Marshall MissionThe Nationalist Position in 1946The Civil War and the Nationalist CollapseChina in 1949 and the Founding of the RepublicThe Mass Campaigns and the Grip on PowerThe Soviet Alliance and the Korean WarThe Hundred Flowers and the First Five Year PlanThe Great Leap Forward and the People's CommunesRectification, the Marriage Law and Social Change
2Q The American Dream: Reality and Illusion, 1945–1980
Topic overviewAmerican Power and Politics in 1945Truman and the Fair DealContainment, NATO and the Korean WarTaft-Hartley, the 1948 Election and McCarthyismCivil Rights in the Truman YearsEisenhower and Modern RepublicanismThe Fall of McCarthy and the Fifties EconomySuburbia, the Highways and the New LookHungary, Rollback and the Berlin CrisisEisenhower, South Vietnam and SEATOBrown, Montgomery and Little RockThe Election of 1960The New Frontier and the Berlin WallCivil Rights under Kennedy and America by 1963
2R The Cold War, c1945–1991
Topic overviewYalta, Potsdam and the Wartime AllianceThe Sovietisation of Eastern EuropeThe Marshall Plan and American Aid to EuropeThe Division of Germany, the Berlin Blockade and NATOJapan, China and NSC-68Korea in 1950 and the UN ResponseMcCarthyism and the Isolation of ChinaNATO, the Warsaw Pact and the First Indochina WarKhrushchev and the Crises of 1956 in Poland and HungaryThe Hungarian Uprising, Peaceful Coexistence and the Paris SummitThe U-2 Affair, the Missile Race and the Space RaceThe Berlin Crisis and the Berlin WallThe Division of Vietnam and the NLFCuba, the Bay of Pigs and the Missile Crisis
2S The Making of Modern Britain, 1951–2007
Topic overviewThe Conservative Prime Ministers, 1951 to 1964The Long Boom and Stop-GoWomen, Youth, Immigration and the Notting Hill RiotsForeign Policy, Suez and Decolonisation, 1951-1964Harold Wilson and the National PlanDevaluation and Labour's Economic Policy, 1965-1969In Place of Strife, Education and Northern IrelandThe Abolition of Hanging and Divorce ReformThe Media, the Permissive Society and Race in the 1960sVietnam, the EEC Veto and the Atlantic AllianceHeath, the 1970 Election and Selsdon ParkThe Industrial Relations Act and the 1972 StrikeThe Oil Crisis and the Second Miners' StrikeNorthern Ireland from Bloody Sunday to SunningdaleThe Social Contract, the IMF Crisis and the Winter of DiscontentFeminism, Equality Legislation and Immigration in the 1970sPunk and the New Politics of the 1970sBritain's Entry into the EEC and the 1975 ReferendumThe Special Relationship and Detente in the 1970s
2T The Crisis of Communism: The USSR and the Soviet Empire, 1953–2000
Topic overviewStalin's Death and the System He LeftKhrushchev's Rise and the Anti-Party GroupThe Secret Speech and De-StalinisationThe Sovnarkhozy, Housing and the ThawThe Virgin Lands Scheme and Agricultural FailureThe Thaw, China and Khrushchev's Foreign PolicyThe Fall of KhrushchevBrezhnev and His Leading ColleaguesThe Kosygin Reforms and Economic StagnationDetente, Afghanistan and the Second Cold WarDissidents and Nationalist Unrest under BrezhnevAndropov, Chernenko and the Rise of GorbachevGorbachev's Aims and PerestroikaGlasnost, Afghanistan and the End of the Cold WarChernobyl, Economic Restructuring and DemocratisationThe Opposition to GorbachevThe August Coup and the End of the USSRYeltsin and Shock TherapyPutin's Rise and the Second Chechen War
1C The Tudors: England, 1485–1603
- 12 subtopics
- 70 things to know
- Component 1
What 1C The Tudors: England, 1485–1603 covers
Option 1C is a breadth study of Tudor England, taken as one of the Component 1 choices. It covers the consolidation of the dynasty under Henry VII and Henry VIII, the instability of the mid-century, and the long reign of Elizabeth I.
Where it is assessed
Component 1
A breadth study, of which a student sits one.
Check the AQA specification ↗The 12 subtopics
Each one has its own page. AQA AS History students sit this topic in the first year.
- Henry VII's Claim to the ThroneRecall questions on how Henry Tudor won the crown in 1485, the descent his claim rested on and his approach to kingship.Open →
- Henry VII's Councils and GovernmentRecall questions on the Privy Council, the Council Learned in the Law, the Court of Star Chamber and his use of Parliament.Open →
- Henry VII's Finances, the Nobility and Foreign PolicyRecall questions on the growth of Henry VII's income, JPs, bonds and recognisances and new peerages, and on foreign policy from Medina del Campo and Étaples to the Magnus Intercursus, the Perpetual Peace and Margaret Tudor's Scottish marriage.Open →
- Pretenders and Rebellions under Henry VIIRecall questions on Lambert Simnel and the Battle of Stoke, Perkin Warbeck and his foreign backers, the Yorkshire and Cornish rebellions of 1489 and 1497, the threat from Edmund de la Pole and how the succession was secured.Open →
- Society and the Economy under Henry VIIRecall questions on the social hierarchy from nobles and gentry to yeomen and commoners, churchmen in government, the Council of the North, the cloth trade and Merchant Adventurers, the Navigation Acts, Cabot's voyage and enclosure.Open →
- Religion, Humanism and the Arts under Henry VIIRecall questions on Henry VII's orthodox religious policy and personal piety, the humanism of Colet, More and Erasmus, Caxton's printing press, and the king's patronage of the arts and architecture.Open →
- Henry VIII: Character and AimsRecall questions on Henry's education as a Renaissance prince and on his military, dynastic and diplomatic ambitions.Open →
- Wolsey, Cromwell and the Break with RomeRecall questions on the fall of Empson and Dudley, Wolsey's dominance and fall, Cromwell's achievements and his fall in 1540, and the break with Rome through the Acts in Restraint of Appeals, Supremacy, Succession and Treason.Open →
- The Dissolution, Foreign Policy and Henry VIII's WivesRecall questions on the Valor Ecclesiasticus and the dissolution of the monasteries, war with Scotland from Flodden to the Rough Wooing, the Field of Cloth of Gold and the campaign of 1544, and Henry VIII's six wives and the succession.Open →
- The Ranks of Tudor SocietyRecall questions on the place of the nobility, the gentry, the yeomen and the husbandmen in Tudor England.Open →
- The Pilgrimage of Grace, Wales and the Henrician EconomyRecall questions on the causes, leadership and suppression of the Pilgrimage of Grace, the Laws in Wales Acts and the Council in the Marches, and the Henrician economy: cloth exports, debasement, monastic wealth, enclosure and population growth.Open →
- Humanism and Religious Change under Henry VIIIRecall questions on More, Colet, Erasmus and Christian humanism, the arrival of Lutheran ideas and Tyndale's New Testament, the Great Bible, the Ten and Six Articles, and the state of the Church, Cranmer's role and court faction by 1547.Open →
What you need to know
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What was Henry VII's aim regarding conflict during his reign?
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What was Henry VII's aim concerning England's position in Europe?
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What was the Council Learned in the Law?
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What was the Court of Star Chamber and how did it operate?
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How did Henry VII use crown lands to increase revenue?
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What was Henry VII's approximate annual income at the start of his reign compared to the end?
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When did Prince Arthur marry Catherine of Aragon, and what happened afterwards?
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What support did Perkin Warbeck receive from Scotland?
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Where did nobles rank in the social hierarchy under Henry VII?
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What was the Council of the North?
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How did Henry VII demonstrate personal piety?
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What aspects of a Renaissance prince's education did Henry VIII possess?
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What was one of Henry VIII's primary aims regarding warfare?
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What dynastic aim drove much of Henry VIII's personal and political decisions?
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Why did Thomas Wolsey fall from power in 1529?
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What factors led to Thomas Cromwell's fall in 1540?
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How did Parliament's role change under Henry VIII?
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What was the Valor Ecclesiasticus of 1535?
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What happened after the English victory at the Battle of Solway Moss in 1542?
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What was the Field of Cloth of Gold in 1520?
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What role did the nobility play in Tudor society?
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What was the social position of husbandmen in Tudor England?
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How did the dissolution affect educational provision?
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How did the dissolution of monasteries contribute to the Pilgrimage of Grace?
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How was the Pilgrimage of Grace suppressed?
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What trading company controlled the export of finished cloth to the Netherlands and northern Europe?
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How did Thomas More contribute to Renaissance humanism in England?
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Why did Henry VIII receive the title Defender of the Faith in 1521?
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How would you characterise the nature of religious change under Henry VIII?
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How old was Edward VI when he became king in 1547?
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Who replaced Somerset as the dominant figure in government from 1549?
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What three factors weakened royal authority under Edward VI?
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What did the Treaty of Boulogne (1550) require England to give up?
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What did the Chantries Act (1547) dissolve?
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What was the main agricultural purpose of enclosure that caused social problems?
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How did Kett's rebels differ from the Western rebels in their attitude to religion?
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What did the need for foreign mercenaries to suppress both 1549 rebellions reveal?
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Name two Continental Protestant reformers who were invited to England and influenced Edwardian religious policy.
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What was Mary I's principal religious aim?
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What did Wyatt's Rebellion reaching London demonstrate?
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Name three high-profile Protestant martyrs burned at Oxford during Mary's reign.
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What epidemic struck England in 1557-1558?
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Why did Elizabeth balance religious conservatives and Protestants on her Privy Council?
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What did the Royal Injunctions (1559) require regarding clergy dress and church furnishings?
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What did Parliament repeatedly petition Elizabeth to do in the early years of her reign?
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What did the Statute of Artificers (1563) regulate?
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What did returning Marian exiles press for under Elizabeth?
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Who served as Elizabeth I's principal minister from 1558 until 1598?
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Who succeeded William Cecil as Elizabeth's chief minister?
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What were Parliament's main functions under Elizabeth I?
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What was the Throckmorton Plot of 1583?
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When and where was Mary, Queen of Scots, executed?
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How did religious differences contribute to deteriorating Anglo-Spanish relations from the 1560s?
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How did English privateering contribute to Anglo-Spanish hostility?
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Why did England intervene in the French Wars of Religion?
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What regional factors contributed to the Northern Rebellion of 1569?
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What was England's most important export industry during Elizabeth's reign?
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When was the East India Company founded and what was its purpose?
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What happened to the Roanoke colony?
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What did the Elizabethan Religious Settlement of 1559 establish?
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What was Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene?
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What issues caused parliamentary tensions to increase in the 1590s?
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What did the 1559 settlement establish, what did Puritans seek, and what was the Vestments Controversy?
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What did the returning Marian exiles expect, when did Elizabeth succeed, and how did she rule?
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What were Mary I's position and religious aims, and who was her chief minister?
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Why did Edward VI's accession require a regency, who led it, and what gave him that position?
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What does the concept of a 'Mid-Tudor Crisis' suggest about the period 1547-1558?
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What is the historiographical debate about the 'Mid-Tudor Crisis'?
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How does minority rule under Edward VI support the argument for a Mid-Tudor Crisis?
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Act of Supremacy vs Act of Uniformity
Act of Supremacy: statute recognising royal control of the English Church. Act of Uniformity: statute prescribing common forms of worship.
Questions from this topic
Each one with the model answer underneath.
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How did Henry Tudor become king of England in 1485?
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He defeated Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field in August 1485.
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Through whom did Henry VII derive his claim to the throne?
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Through his mother Margaret Beaufort, who was descended from John of Gaunt through a legitimised but originally barred line.
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Why was Henry VII's claim to the throne considered weak?
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It derived from the Beaufort line, which had been legitimised but originally barred from succession to the throne.
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What were the key characteristics of Henry VII's personality and approach to ruling?
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He was cautious, suspicious, and calculating, preferring diplomacy and financial control over military action.
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What was one of Henry VII's primary aims regarding the Tudor dynasty?
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To secure the Tudor dynasty and ensure its continuation.
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What was Henry VII's aim regarding conflict during his reign?
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To maintain peace, avoiding costly and destabilising warfare.
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1C The Tudors: England, 1485–1603 revision questions
- Is 1C The Tudors: England, 1485–1603 examined at AS in AQA History?
- Yes. It sits in Component 1, which you take in the first year, so it is on the AS paper as well as counting towards the full A level.
- What does 1C The Tudors: England, 1485–1603 cover in AQA AS-Level History?
- 12 subtopics: henry vii's claim to the throne, henry vii's councils and government, henry vii's finances, the nobility and foreign policy, pretenders and rebellions under henry vii, society and the economy under henry vii, religion, humanism and the arts under henry vii, henry viii: character and aims, wolsey, cromwell and the break with rome, the dissolution, foreign policy and henry viii's wives, the ranks of tudor society, the pilgrimage of grace, wales and the henrician economy and humanism and religious change under henry viii. Each one has its own page with questions and model answers.
- How is 1C The Tudors: England, 1485–1603 organised?
- By the AQA 7042 specification, subtopic by subtopic, so it matches the order you are taught it in.
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