Setting the Scene: Chronology, Geography and Regional Powers

What this note covers

1. Know the exact period before you build the story
2. Geography as strategy, communication and constraint
3. Map regional powers as changing relationships
4. Contact was military, diplomatic, economic and cultural
5. Periodisation: turning points and competing clocks
6. The source map behind the timeline
7. Use the survey inside a 25-mark response

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