History A-Level
Secularisation and state control
What Secularisation and state control means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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Church reforms, notably the Civil Constitution of the Clergy, nationalised church lands and forced priests to swear loyalty to the state.
Topics that use Secularisation and state control
- 2H France in Revolution, 1774–1815 (A-level only) – The experiment in constitutional monarchy, 1789–1792 (AQA A-Level)
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- Collapse of absolute monarchy
- Decentralisation of power
- Economic hardship as a catalyst
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- Bourgeois dominance
- Constitutionalism
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