History revision.

What you can use

Read topic notes, review flashcards and attempt original practice questions. Compare your written answers with suggested markschemes and solutions. Relevant quantitative lessons include equation references.

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Topics and guidance

• Causation, change and significance
• Source provenance, purpose and limitations
• Inference, comparison and corroboration
• Analytical essays and comparative arguments
• Historical investigation and research integrity
• Society and economy, 750–1400: framework
• Causes and effects of wars, 750–1500: framework
• Dynasties and rulers, 750–1500: framework
• Societies in transition, 1400–1700: framework
• Early Modern states, 1450–1789: framework
• Early Modern wars, 1500–1750: framework
• Industrialization, 1750–2005: framework
• Independence movements, 1800–2000: framework
• Democratic states, 1848–2000: framework
• Authoritarian states: emergence and consolidation
• Twentieth-century wars: comparative framework
• The Cold War: rivalry and changing relations
• Military leaders: route introduction
• Conquest and its impact: route introduction
• The move to global war: route introduction
• Rights and protest: route introduction
• Conflict and intervention: route introduction
• First World War: causes and consequences
• Nazi Germany: legal consolidation of dictatorship
• Early Cold War: containment and perspective
• South Africa: apartheid and democratic transition
• Africa and the Middle East: depth-study planning · HL
• The Americas: depth-study planning · HL
• Asia and Oceania: depth-study planning · HL
• Europe: depth-study planning · HL

Coverage and course references

2027 starter library and choice map: shared skills, 12 world-topic frameworks, five prescribed-route introductions, four factual cases and four HL regional planning lessons. It does not complete every school-selected History pathway.

Check the detailed course map and assessment references for the specification covered. Later exam sessions may use a revised syllabus. Notes and practice have not been independently verified throughout.

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