History GCSE
Empire and trade routes
What Empire and trade routes means in History GCSE, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Empire and trade routes
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Reference: OCR
Links that connected British ports to Africa, the Caribbean and South Asia, to which the growth of diverse port communities should be connected.
Topics that use Empire and trade routes
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