The Exam
Each is worth the same - 25 marks.
Which Ext History exam question is worth more marks?
How has history been constructed and recorded over time?
Which of the five questions would be most relevant to a stimulus about methodology?
The River of Blood.
What Civil War battlefield did Trump invent to give hisotircal flavour to a golf course?
1095 CE.
What date is the the Council of Clermont?
The term crusades can be applied not just to Christian attempts to recapture Jerusalem, but to a much wider set of conflicts with heretics and non-Christians across a much broader geography.
What is the pluralist position on the Crusades?
He was an athiest, a British MP during the Empire's heyday, and lived through the Enlightenment.
What can be said in outline about the life and times of Edward Gibbon?
One of two areas of debate, the stimulus (if provided), and the question itself.
What do you need to consider in answering Q2?
Inquisition records relating to suspected Cathars in Montaillou.
What was the main source used by Annales hisotrian Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie?
Chernobyl Prayer, Zinky Boys, and The Unwomanly Face of War.
What are some notable works by Nobel Prize-winning oral Historian Svetlana Alexievich?
The Rhineland.
Which Jewish community suffered massacres from the crusaders?
Thomas Madden.
Which crusades historian came to promenance in the USA after 9/11, arguing that the crusades were justified self-defense against Islamic Jihad?
Both wrote during the long-running War on Terror, which changed technology, privacy and citizen-state relationships.
What was the context of the Overy-Cannadine debate over whether history should be about significant or boring things?
A student's own voice and insightful ideas.
What do examiners say distinguishes top responses?
Carr and Elton in the 1960s.
Which pair of historians debated the objectivity of historical research and writing?
"Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis"
What article by Joan Scott has been hugely influential in the study of gender in History?
Urban II and Peter the Hermit.
Who are two religious figures credited with kicking off the crusades?
Crusading was an act of love. This can be seen in charters showing many impoverished themselves to go.
What did Johnathon Riley Smith argue abou the motivation of the crusaders?
A work attacking fanaticism written during the Third Reich.
What is Erdmann's The Origin of the Idea of Crusade?
10 minutes.
How much reading time do you get for History Extension?
Macauley (Whig) and Hill (Marxist) both wrote about it but with different approaches.
What is notable about the English Revolution and Civil War in terms of historians we have studied?
The Black Armband and the Three Cheers views.
What are the terms for the different positions taken in Australia's History Wars?
Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Where did Jerusalem's citizens take refuge, before being cruelly massacred by the crusaders?
Spy, coward, or 'sensitive new age crusader'
What are three views of Stephen of Blois?
He was an expert witness in the Irving v Lipstadt trial dealing with libel over Holocaust denial.
It can provide clues about the stimulus's temporal context, purpose or author.
Why should you always look at the source description?
What are some 'contemporary' issues in historiography that Herodotus deals with?
"in a world riven by cumulative crises, history offers tools of navigation, stories of resistance and hope, and precedents for what can seem like unprecedented times."
In the face of government cuts, restructures and declining enrollments, what did MQ Prof. Michelle Arrow say is History's value?
Usama ibn Munqidh, a twelfth-century Arab aristocrat.
Who wrote our only first-hand memoir from the Arab side of the crusades?
His focus on Byzantium, his homosexuality, his rejection of the romantic picture of the Crusades.
What are some factors that show Runciaman's contrarian nature?
The Collège de France.
Where did Foucault hold a chair and deliver his public lectures?