History A-Level
Merchants
What Merchants means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Merchants
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Reference: AQA
An expanding mercantile class in urban centres who accumulated vast fortunes through overseas trade and increasingly sought political influence and social mobility.
Topics that use Merchants
- 1D Stuart Britain and the Crisis of Monarchy, 1603–1702 – Monarchs and Parliaments, 1603–1629 (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Crown and Parliament
- Financial weakness
- Foreign policy
- Land ownership
- Personal Rule
- Political Nation
- Radicalism vs Conservatism
- Religious division
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