Topic Four (1.4): Social structures

Topics Icon.png Objectives for this topic

  • To investigate the governments, laws and social structures that helped to create order in society.  

Introduction Icon.png Introduction

In this topic we will be looking at Viking society, feudalism in Medieval Europe, the rule of the Ottoman Sultan, and society and government in Renaissance Italy. We will be investigating similarities in the governing structures within these societies.  

Interact Icon.png Working through your coursebook

Please work through the following sections in your coursebook, completing all listed exercises:

  • Read pages 40 to 41 and complete all of the activities in the Check your learning box on page 41.

COMPLETE – Worksheet 0.7 Download COMPLETE – Worksheet 0.7

  • Use the PowerPoint to construct your own feudal pyramid:

READ – The Feudal System (activehistory.org.uk) Links to an external site.

Bridge Icon.png  Support activity for this topic

  • Use this video to support your understanding of Viking government:

 WATCH - The Vikings and their Thing - BBC - YouTube

  • Use this video to support your understanding of the Reformation:

 WATCH – The Protestant Reformation: Crash Course European History #6 (YouTube)

Stretch Icon.png Extension activity for this topic

  • Hear Professor Fred Anscombe tell you more about the Ottoman empire:

LISTEN - The Ottoman impact on their subjects / Historical Association (history.org.uk) Links to an external site.

  • Hear Professor Rosemary McKitterick on why the Vikings were more than ‘raiders’:

LISTEN - The Vikings / Historical Association (history.org.uk) Links to an external site.

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CHECK - 0.7 Student Book Answers Download CHECK - 0.7 Student Book Answers