History A-Level
Change and continuity in trade patterns
What Change and continuity in trade patterns means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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Between 1763 and 1914 trade shifted from protected Atlantic commerce to global free trade, altering the reasons for trade, its nature and its direction.
Topics that use Change and continuity in trade patterns
- Paper 3, Option 35.1: Britain: losing and gaining an empire, 1763–1914 - 1 The changing nature and extent of trade (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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