History A-Level
Economic hardship as a catalyst
What Economic hardship as a catalyst means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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Economic hardship radicalised Paris and, through bread shortages among Parisian women, was the economic trigger of the October Days.
Topics that use Economic hardship as a catalyst
- 2H France in Revolution, 1774–1815 (A-level only) – The experiment in constitutional monarchy, 1789–1792 (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Collapse of absolute monarchy
- Decentralisation of power
- Great Fear
- October Days
- Secularisation and state control
- Bourgeois dominance
- Constitutionalism
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