Key term for OCR GCSE History B, used in Settlers.
The local administrative division in the Danelaw, equivalent to an Anglo-Saxon hundred, where free men brandished weapons to show agreement.
Wapentake appears in OCR GCSE History B revision content for Viking Expansion (c.750–c.1050), especially Settlers and Settlement in British Isles and France.
Viking Expansion (c.750–c.1050)
Settlers • Settlement in British Isles and France
The Norman Conquest (1065–1087)
England on the eve of the conquest • Society
Crime and Punishment (c.1250–Present)
Early Modern Britain c.1500–c.1750 • Enforcing law and order
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