History A-Level
Agricultural decline and rural change
What Agricultural decline and rural change means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Agricultural decline and rural change
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A slow decline across the period, including competition, mechanisation and rural-to-urban migration.
Topics that use Agricultural decline and rural change
- Paper 3, Option 37.2: Germany, 1871–1990: united, divided and reunited - 2 Economic change in Germany and West Germany (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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