Socio-economic pressures
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Pressures such as primogeniture, which affected younger sons, and the peasantry's desperate desire to escape famine and poverty in Europe.
Drivers for crusaders including land hunger, plunder, and feudal ties to lords taking the cross.
Topics that use Socio-economic pressures
- 1A The Age of the Crusades, c1071–1204 – consequence in this period through the following key questions: (AQA A-Level)
- 1A The Age of the Crusades, c1071–1204 – The origins of conflict and the First Crusade, c1071–c1099 (AQA A-Level)
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