Advanced · 2h 24m · 18 lessons
History: Advanced
Read the sources first, then decide what really happened.
What you'll learn
- ✦Explain how a seal, brick, inscription or carving becomes a careful claim, and what it cannot show
- ✦Compare a rule-book, a court chronicle and a traveller's account of Mughal India for which question each suits
- ✦Read a proclamation, a revenue rule, a census and a commission report to explain why colonial India looks different from each side
- ✦Explain Quit India, Partition and the Constitution as processes of years, using a speech, an oral history and debates
- ✦Compare sources made inside and outside an empire, and say what a fossil and a clay tablet can and cannot tell
- ✦Explain why Britain industrialised first, and read an owner's account against a worker's testimony
- ✦Compare a coloniser's account with the colonised side's, and place the world wars, Cold War and new nations on a timeline
- ✦Sort any source by type, say who made it and for whom, and choose the better of two sources for a question
Certification projects
Build 3 projects to earn your certificate
Hands-on work that proves you can apply what you learned — part of the certificate requirements.
Syllabus
Module 1 · 24m
Early India: Reading the Evidence Free
What you'll be able to do
- Explain how a find becomes a claim, and mark what it cannot show
- Compare an edict, an envoy's report and a rule-book on one empire
- Read a stupa carving and a text side by side
Module 2 · 24m
Medieval India: Rule-Books, Chronicles and Visitors Locked
What you'll be able to do
- Explain why two fields paid different tax and which source shows it
- Say who a court chronicle was written for and what it leaves out
- Compare a traveller's account with a chronicle
Module 3 · 24m
Colonial India: Voices and Silences Locked
What you'll be able to do
- Explain why 1857 was more than a soldiers' mutiny
- Say what a revenue rule and a census counted and missed
- Ask three questions of an official record
Module 4 · 24m
Making a Nation: Speech, Memory and Debate Locked
What you'll be able to do
- Explain how the movement went on after the 1942 arrests
- Say what a memory adds to a record on Partition
- Explain how debate shaped the Constitution
Module 5 · 24m
World History: Old Sources, Big Empires Locked
What you'll be able to do
- Say what a fossil and a tablet can and cannot tell
- Compare inside and outside sources on an empire
- Give three causes of Britain's early industry and read an owner against a worker
Module 6 · 24m
The Modern World: Conquest, War and Freedom Locked
What you'll be able to do
- Compare a conqueror's letter with the conquered side's account
- Place both world wars and the Cold War on one timeline
- Explain why independence was a start, not an end