History GCSE
Environmental change
What Environmental change means in History GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Environmental change
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Railroad construction divided buffalo herds and brought hunters who decimated the buffalo population, while cattle competed with buffalo for grazing land and water.
Topics that use Environmental change
- Option P3: Key topic 2: Development of the Plains, c1862–c1876 - 3 Changes in the ways of life of Indigenous peoples of the Plains (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Assimilation
- Broken treaties
- Conflict
- Cultural destruction
- Government policy
- Impact on Indigenous peoples
- Indigenous resistance
- Military strategy
Using Environmental change in the exam
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