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Year 7 Humanities Revision Checklist Exam length: 60 minutes

Term 3: The Middle Ages • Historical sources: o What is a primary source? o What is a secondary source? o What are examples of each? o How can you tell the difference between them? • The Feudal System: o How does it work? o What is a villien/serf, a freeman, a baron, a knight, a king? Who is more important? o Obligations – who to whom? o What does each group get from the other? o Jobs performed by serfs/villeins? o What life was like for serfs/villeins? • The Black Death o Causes? o Effects? • Law and Order o Trial by ordeal – what it involved o Reasons for its use o Why were punishments so severe? o Why it stopped being used • Witchcraft o Targets of witch hunts? o How the witch hunts affected people. • Religion and Power o The role of the Church in Medieval society o The differences between the medieval church and the church today • The Magna Carta o What was it? o Why it was significant? Term 4: Refugees • Definitions o What is a refugee? o What is an asylum seeker? o What is an Internally Displaced Person? o What are the key differences between all three of these categories?  eg. Rights?  Movement?  Acceptance? • General questions/knowledge needed: o The global distribution of refugees (both origin and destination) o The arguments for and against Australia taking in asylum seekers by boat o What is a push factor? o What is a pull factor? o What forces people to leave their countries. o Why some refugees head to the West (eg. Australia, USA, etc) o Who the UNHCR are and what they do. o Australia intake of asylum seekers compared to other countries.