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history at Key Stage 2

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History for 13+ Common Entrance

Starting with the dinosaurs and concluding with the Anglo-Saxons, this rigorous and stimulating history course will develop analytical skills and a passion for the past.

Ensure a thorough understanding of the latest History Common Entrance syllabus with these invaluable ISEB-endorsed textbooks.

■ Chronological approach helps pupils understand historical context

■ Compelling narrative course for Key Stage 2 pupils

■ Clearly presented content and lively illustrations

■ Develop pupils’ understanding of historical context

■ End-of-chapter source-based questions to help pupils develop analytical skills

£15.99 9781902984964

■ Exercises that challenge and stimulate ensure all material is fully absorbed

£15.99 9781471808845

l Junior History 2

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Book 2

When motte and bailey castles fell into disrepair, their owners were usually prepared to build more permanent structures. For example, wooden palisades or walls could be replaced by stone curtain walls ; and the motte could have a shell keep placed on top, or be replaced with a tower keep . Howtoattackanddefendcastles During medieval times, most wars were not fought with lots of big battles, but consisted instead of a succession of sieges to capture castles and fortified towns. New ways of attacking castles and town walls were developed, and new defences were invented to counter these attacks. As you might expect, the simplest way to take a castle was to go through the doorway or gate. Consequently, defenders developed a whole series of ways to make doing this as difficult as possible. Here are some of the things that they built; can you work out how they made defending the entrance easier?

7 Life in the Middle Ages

Castles

n the countryside lived Pan ,a goat-like creature who frightened lonely travellers (and gave us the word panic). But most important of all were the gods and goddesses who were thought to live on Mount Olympus , the highest mountain in Greece. Their king was Zeus . His brother, Poseidon , was god of the sea,and another brother, Hades ,ruled the gloomy kingdom under the earth where the souls of the dead went.

The names of the best known gods are listed here.

The gods and godesses of Greece

Greek Name

Description

Zeus Hera

ruler of the gods queen of the gods

Before we move on to find out what happened after the death of Edward III, we are now going to step back and look at life in the Middle Ages. What was it like to be alive at that time? We will start with the building that perhaps more than anything else sums up this period of history: the castle. ●● Castles

Poseidon Hades Athene Artemis

god of the sea

The gods of Olympus

god of the underworld

goddess of wisdom and the arts goddess of hunting and the moon god of music,archery and the sun

Apollo

Aphrodite

goddess of love and beauty

Castles have always been seen as part of the landscape of the Middle Ages. Most people think of a castle as a great stone building, the home of a king, with banners flying as mounted knights thunder across the wooden drawbridge to the sound of trumpets. But is this really what castles were like? And why were they actually built? Earlycastles As you learnt in Chapter 2, the first castles were not built of stone at all. In 1066, the Norman invaders needed quick and ready bases from which to control a hostile England, and so constructed the motte and bailey castles, made of earthworks and wood. These provided a home for groups of mounted men who could ride out and keep control of the local Saxon population. They were also the high-security residences of Norman barons and were carefully positioned to control key places such as river crossings or towns. Their great weaknesses, however, were rot and fire and they did not last much more than twenty years.

Ares

god of war god of wine

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Dionysus

Hephaestus

god of fire and metalwork goddess of the harvest messenger of the gods

Demeter Hermes

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●■ The shell keep atTamworthCastle

Myths

Portcullis

A myth is a story which was told to explain things which people at the time would not have understood. For example,why do we have summer and winter? The Greeks believed that there had been a GoldenAge when the weather had always been warm and sunny and fruit and cereals grew all the year round. Demeter , the goddess of plants and trees, had a daughter, Persephone ,who was kidnapped while she was playing with her friends.

Arrow slits

Murderholes

The Greeks didn’t think that their gods were good and fair and perfect. Gods had all the good and bad points that humans had but magnified a hundred times. Zeus often lost his temper and hurled thunderbolts at anyone who upset him. His wife Hera could be cruel and jealous. Once, when Zeus was chasing a girl called Leda ,Hera changed her into a swan. Zeus,quick as a flash,changed himself into a swan too. Later,Leda laid an egg and,when it hatched,out came two boys and two girls. The boys we know as Gemini , theTwins,one of the signs of the Zodiac. The girls were Helen , later famous as Helen ofTroy,and Clytemnestra who became the wife ofAgamemnon, leader of the expedition toTroy.

Doors

Drawbridge

Moat

●■ The tower keep atRochesterCastle

Drawbar

Hades and Persephone in the Underworld

●■ An artist’s impressionof the entrance to a fourteenth-century castle

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