History A-Level
Social mobility and backlash
What Social mobility and backlash means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Social mobility and backlash
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Conversos could hold public office, join the Church and marry into noble families, but their success provoked hostility.
Topics that use Social mobility and backlash
- Paper 3, Option 32: The Golden Age of Spain, 1474–1598 - 1 The Spanish Inquisition and the persecution of the Jews, 1478–92 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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