History A-Level
Pretenders
What Pretenders means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Pretenders
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Individuals such as Perkin Warbeck who impersonated a Yorkist claimant, relying on foreign backing and forcing Henry VII to use diplomacy and trade embargoes.
Topics that use Pretenders
- 2B The Wars of the Roses, 1450–1499 – The end of the Yorkist Dynasty, 1486–1499 (A-level only) (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Centralisation of power
- Consolidation of power
- Dynastic legitimacy
- Dynastic security
- Dynastic threat
- Economic continuity and change
- Foreign diplomacy
- Foreign intervention
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