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  1. How "dark" were the Dark Ages?

    16 questions

  2. Why has Alfred been called "Alfred the Great"?

    16 questions

  3. How powerful was the Pope?

    16 questions

  4. How did a Norman become King of England?

    17 questions

  5. How much did England change during the Norman Conquest?

    17 questions

  6. Which sources reveal the most about medieval peasants?

    24 questions

  7. How was Baghdad connected to the wider world?

    22 questions

  8. Why did Europeans join the Crusades?

    22 questions

  9. Who lived in Crusader states?

    22 questions

  10. What can the life of Eleanor of Aquitaine tell us about who held power in the Middle Ages?

    18 questions

  11. Why did Kings struggle to rule England?

    18 questions

  12. How did the Mongols create a world Empire?

    22 questions

  13. How far did the Black Death change the medieval World?

    24 questions

  14. How big a threat was the Peasants' Revolt to the power of monarchs

    18 questions

  15. What can we learn about the medieval World from the book of Margery Kempe?

    24 questions

  16. What does the life of Mansa Musa reveal about medieval Mali?

    22 questions

  17. Why have historians described 1492 as a turning point in world history?

    23 questions

  18. Why did Henry VIII make the break with Rome?

    30 questions

  19. In what ways did the Reformation matter to ordinary people?

    30 questions

  20. Why was the world opening up to Elizabeth I and her people?

    23 questions

  21. Why did the Civil War break out in 1642?

    30 questions

  22. In what ways was Britain turned upside down in the seventeenth century?

    30 questions

  23. How revolutionary was the Glorious Revolution?

    30 questions

  24. Who lived in 'British' America?

    23 questions

  25. Did the Enlightenment fuel the American Revolution?

    20 questions

  26. How Enlightened was the French Revolution?

    20 questions

  27. What did the French Revolution mean to Britons?

    20 questions

  28. How successful were efforts to abolish slavery in the nineteenth century?

    23 questions

  29. How far did working conditions improve over the nineteenth century?

    16 questions

  30. Why are different stories told about Britain's journey to democracy?

    16 questions

  31. Why does it matter what we call the 1857 conflict in India?

    16 questions

  32. What did British colonialism look like in the nineteenth century?

    16 questions

  33. How do we uncover the lived experience of those ruled by Empire in Africa?

    16 questions

  34. How far did the assassination cause the First World War?

    38 questions

  35. What do the stories of the 'often forgotten armies' reveal about the Western Front?

    38 questions

  36. Why did WWI end in November 1918?

    38 questions

  37. What kind of peace was made in 1919?

    38 questions

  38. What were the Bolsheviks trying to achieve?

    21 questions

  39. Why did fascists gain support?

    21 questions

  40. How were people controlled in totalitarian states?

    21 questions

  41. Why did the League of Nations fail?

    38 questions

  42. When was the turning point during the Second World War?

    38 questions

  43. How did Jewish people resist during the holocaust?

    38 questions

  44. How did India achieve independence in 1947?

    17 questions

  45. What kind of stories can be told about the sixties?

    17 questions

  46. Who 'decolonised' in the twentieth century?

    17 questions