History A-Level
Urban and port development
What Urban and port development means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Urban and port development
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
In the UK, London, Liverpool and Glasgow grew as ports handling imperial trade.
Topics that use Urban and port development
- Paper 3, Option 35.1: Britain: losing and gaining an empire, 1763–1914 - 1 The changing nature and extent of trade (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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