OCR GCSE History B · J411
Paper 1
Revise: Norman societyThe Normans had Scandinavian origins: their name came from ‘Northmen’. Their society, however, was not simply a continuation of Viking society.
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GCSE History · key term
The people of Normandy, whose culture developed from Scandinavian settlers mixing with the local population and adopting Christianity and a form of French.
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Paper 1
Revise: Norman societyThe Normans had Scandinavian origins: their name came from ‘Northmen’. Their society, however, was not simply a continuation of Viking society.
Keep examples within the period asked about: the Bayeux Tapestry was made after 1066, so it is not an example of pre-Conquest Norman artistic production.
Do not describe all Normans as knights or all peasants as serfs.
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