History A-Level
Benefits and costs to the crown
What Benefits and costs to the crown means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Benefits and costs to the crown
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Benefits included prestige, territorial gain, plunder, ransoms, trade protection and dynastic security, while costs included taxation, debt, casualties, disrupted trade and political opposition.
Topics that use Benefits and costs to the crown
- Paper 3, Option 30: Lancastrians, Yorkists and Henry VII, 1399–1509 - 2 Changes in the sinews of power (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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