Technological advancement
What Technological advancement means in History GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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The use of science and technology, such as two-way radios, DNA profiling, fingerprinting and CCTV, which revolutionised policing.
Changes in weaponry, including the use of rifles and bullets and the development of field guns and heavy artillery.
Topics that use Technological advancement
- Option 10: c1900–present: Crime and punishment in modern Britain - 2 The nature of law enforcement and punishment (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
- Option 12: c1700–c1900: Warfare and British society in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries - 1 The nature of warfare (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
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