The mountain · Humanities ridge · camp 2 of 4
History
History: chronology, cause and consequence, change and continuity, and the events and people the curricula ask students to know.
Walk to this camp
Three questions light the next lantern. Nothing to install, no sign-up.
Eight rungs, one trail
Every camp on the mountain has the same eight rungs: the eight altitudes Alpenrise measures, read back in the words of your own school system. Rung 1 is the bottom of secondary school; rung 8 is beyond the final exam.
| Rung | New Zealand | United Kingdom | Cambridge | IB |
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| R1Explorer | Year 7 | Year 7 | Stage 7 | MYP 1 |
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| R2Pathfinder | Year 8 | Year 8 | Stage 8 | MYP 2 |
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| R3Voyager | Year 9 | Year 9 | Stage 9 | MYP 3 |
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| R4Navigator | Year 10 | Year 10 · GCSE yr 1 | IGCSE Yr 1 | MYP 4 |
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| R5Pioneer | Year 11 | Year 11 · GCSE | IGCSE Yr 2 | MYP 5 |
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| R6Summit | Year 12 | Year 12 · AS | AS Level | DP 1 |
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| R7Apex | Year 13 | Year 13 · A Level | A Level | DP 2 |
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| R8Beyond | NZ Scholarship | beyond A Level | STEP prep | DP HL+ |
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One question from each rung
The mountain draws three questions per rung from the same slice as the free placement. Here is one from each rung of History, shown without its answer.
- Rung 1 · Explorer · Year 7The year 1915 belongs to which century?21st century · 22nd century · 20th century · 19th century
- Rung 2 · Pathfinder · Year 8How many years passed between these two events? James Cook's ship Endeavour reaches New Zealand (1769) and The Treaty of Waitangi is signed (1840).
- Rung 3 · Voyager · Year 9Which of these statements best shows a CONSEQUENCE of the Otago gold rush, rather than a cause of it?Thousands of new migrants arrived in Otago within a few years · Gold was first discovered lying in Otago's river gravels in 1861 · Prospectors had already heard rumours of gold hidden in the hills · Otago's soil had long contained gold-bearing rock beneath the surface
- Rung 4 · Navigator · Year 10The year 1998 falls in which decade?the 1990s · the 1980s · the 2000s · the 2020s
- Rung 5 · Pioneer · Year 11A war memorial lists the names of soldiers from a town who died in a conflict. Why might some families argue that a name missing from the list should be added?They may feel a missing name means that service is not remembered · Names on a war memorial have to be sorted alphabetically · War memorials stay as built once they are unveiled · The missing name is a mistake made by a stonemason
- Rung 6 · Summit · Year 12A city renames a street that once honoured a controversial historical figure, replacing it with a name that honours someone else. What is one argument for making this kind of change?Public names can be updated to reflect what a community values today · Streets have to change their name at least once a decade · Renaming a street deletes that figure from the town's own history books · New streets are the ones that get to be given a name
- Rung 7 · Apex · Year 13Historians often call the event that sets a war off a 'trigger' rather than its cause. Why?Long-running tensions made war possible; the trigger set the date · The trigger is the only real cause; the tensions had all faded away · Triggers are causes that historians have not yet finished studying · A trigger is simply the name for the last event before a peace deal
- Rung 8 · Beyond · NZ ScholarshipWhy do historians caution against treating a monument's removal as solving the historical issues it raised?The underlying historical questions and harms remain either way · Removing a monument is physically unworkable to carry out · A monument's removal rewrites the historical record itself · Monuments stand apart from the issues they represent
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