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GCSE History · key term
The establishment of a community in a place where people intend to live.
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Paper 2
Revise: Key Factors and QuestionsSettlement means establishing a community in a place. Migration can therefore lead to settlement, but movement and the creation of a lasting community are not quite the same thing.
Paper 1
Where people make their homes after moving, including the communities they form.
Revise: Context for MigrationIt helps to separate migration from settlement. A French Protestant might migrate because of persecution, but choose a particular English town because it offered weaving work and an established community. The reason for moving and the reason for settling in one place were connected, but not identical.
Paper 3
A place where people establish a community and live, rather than merely visit or raid.
Revise: Settlement in British Isles and FranceThe nature of settlement means the kind of communities they established and what those communities did. Its extent means where settlement spread and how widespread it became.
The establishment of a community in a place, rather than simply visiting, exploring or raiding it.
Distinguish reasons for migration from patterns of settlement: why people moved is different from where they lived after arrival.
Distinguish the nature of settlement—farms, trading towns and centres of control—from its extent: where it spread and how widespread it was.
Use named places to support comparisons, such as farming settlement in Orkney and Shetland versus trading towns in Ireland.
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