History A-Level
Causation and relative significance
What Causation and relative significance means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Causation and relative significance
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Imperial intervention and wartime disruption combined to halt the hunts, so the end of the craze is not caused by a single factor.
Topics that use Causation and relative significance
- Paper 3, Option 33: The witch craze in Britain, Europe and North America, c1580–c1750 - 3 The Great Witch Hunt, in Bamberg, Germany, 1623–32 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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