Eduqas GCSE History key terms

A group of ten families responsible for dealing with local threats and minor disturbances in Saxon and early medieval communities.

Allowing some religious differences without attempting to eliminate them through persecution. Elizabeth’s early toleration was limited: attendance at Church of England services was still compulsory.

A war in which a country mobilises its civilian population, economy and resources as well as its armed forces.

An organised occasion featuring contests between knights, used for military training, entertainment and displays of status.

An organisation representing workers collectively over matters such as pay, employment and working conditions.

A play centred on suffering and disaster, often ending in the death of major characters.

An activity in which hounds follow an artificially laid scent trail rather than deliberately pursuing a live animal.

A selected group of militia members retained for additional military drill in the Tudor period.

A population whose members stay in a place temporarily rather than settling there permanently, such as sailors passing through a port.

A radio using small electronic components called transistors instead of bulky valves, allowing sets to be smaller and more portable.

Expressing the meaning of a text in another language; translation from Arabic into Latin helped European scholars access scientific and mathematical knowledge.

An operation that replaces a damaged organ or tissue with one from a donor.

Sending convicted offenders overseas to serve their sentences, usually in a penal colony.

Betraying one’s monarch, government or country.

The 1585 agreement under which Elizabeth I promised military support to the Dutch rebels against Spain.

A painful infectious illness spread by body lice.

Damage to the feet caused by prolonged exposure to wet and cold conditions.

Fighting from systems of defensive trenches, used on an unprecedented scale on the Western Front during the First World War.

Goods or payments required by a ruler from peoples under that ruler’s authority.

An event which turns existing discontent into action. Enforcement of the poll tax was the immediate trigger for the Peasants’ Revolt.

The alliance of Tenochtitlan, Texcoco and Tlacopan established in 1428, which became the basis of the Aztec Empire.

The prolonged conflict in Northern Ireland from the late 1960s involving republican and loyalist paramilitaries, police and British armed forces.

A Church movement intended to restrict fighting at particular times, including religiously important days.

The policy announced by President Truman on 12 March 1947, committing the USA to support peoples resisting armed minorities or outside pressure, associated with containing communism.

A bacterial disease, often affecting the lungs, which can spread through coughs and sneezes. It was historically called consumption.

The Trades Union Congress: the organisation representing affiliated British trade unions, which coordinated the 1926 General Strike.

A war in which a country must fight enemies in two different directions at the same time.