History B Schools History Project GCSE
Poverty and socio-economic tension
What Poverty and socio-economic tension means in History B Schools History Project GCSE, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Poverty and socio-economic tension
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Economic hardship, poor harvests and rising poverty led to social tensions in villages, and vulnerable individuals were blamed for misfortunes like crop failures.
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