1. Plains Indians Great American Desert Tepee Buffalo Counting Coup Warfare Great Spirit Medicine Man Hide Tanning Nomads Great Plains Great circle Tribe Bands Scalping Pioneers Mountain Men Trailblazers Forty-niners Migrants Vigilantes Custer Manifest Destiny Mormons, Polygamy, Great Salt Lake, Irrigation Perpetual Emigrating Fund Utah Transcontinental railway Cattlemen Cowboys McCoy Ranching Branding The Long Drive Homesteaders Sods Homesteaders Act, Sheriff Lawmen Johnson County War Little Bighorn Sioux Cheyenne Mandans Key Words – GCSE. The American West. The words listed below will used in GCSE History lessons. Your son should be able to use and describe the meaning of many of them.

2. Prehistoric Trephining Mummification Channels Amulets Asclepion, Hippocrates Four Humours Bleeding Surgery Alexandria Physiology Anatomy Dissection Observation Public Health Aqueduct Progress Regress Middle Ages Superstition Black Death The Plague Medieval Ligatures Anatomy Inoculation Vaccination Smallpox Micro-organisms Cholera Germ Theory Rabies Anaesthetics Antiseptics Infection X-ray Blood transfusion Penicillin Infant mortality NHS Witchcraft Virus Quinine Papyrus Amputation Antibiotics Chloroform Leeches Hippocratic Oath Monasteries Renaissance Key Words – GCSE. Medicine Through Time. The words listed below will used in GCSE History lessons. Your son should be able to use and describe the meaning of many of them.

3. Castle Motte and Bailey Normans William the Conqueror Rebelled Moat Palisade Keep Shell Keep Great Keep Siege Arrow loops Machicolation Crenellation Embrasure Merlon Draw bridge Mangonel Under mining Battering ram Siege tower Concentric Great Hall Solar Guarderobe Perpendicular Norman arch Transverse slits Gate house Mural tower Curtain wall Wall walk Portcullis Trebuchet Murder holes Key Words – GCSE. Castles The words listed below will used in GCSE History lessons. Your son should be able to use and describe the meaning of many of them.