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GCSE History · key term
The growth of towns and cities and an increase in the proportion of people living in them.
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Paper 1
An increase in the proportion of a population living in towns and cities.
Revise: Economy and SocietyMany peasants migrated to Moscow, St Petersburg and other industrial centres in search of wages. This contributed to urbanisation: an increasing proportion of the population living in towns and cities.
Paper 1
The growth of towns and cities as more people live and work in them.
The growth of towns and cities and the increasing proportion of people living in them.
Paper 2
The process through which settlements develop into a town or city, with a more integrated community and shared public spaces.
Revise: Historical Evidence for the Regal PeriodSeventh-century BC archaeology suggests urbanisation: settlements on different hills were becoming a more clearly unified community. Burial areas were increasingly confined to outlying hills, especially the Esquiline and Quirinal, while central areas around the Palatine and Capitoline were used for houses or public buildings.
The process by which settlements develop into a more integrated city, with shared public spaces, buildings, infrastructure and government.
The growth of towns and the increasing concentration of administration, trade and other activities within them.
The development and growth of towns and urban ways of life.
Paper 1, Paper 3
The growth of towns and the increasing proportion of people living in them.
An increase in the proportion of a population living in towns and cities.
An increase in the proportion of people living in towns and cities.
The growth of towns and of the proportion of people living in them.
The growth of towns and cities and an increase in the proportion of the population living in urban areas.
The growth of towns and cities as an increasing proportion of the population lives in urban areas.
The process by which an increasing proportion of a population lives in towns and cities.
An increase in the proportion of people living in towns and cities rather than the countryside.
The increasing proportion of a population living in towns and cities.
The growth of towns and cities, including an increase in the number of people living in them.
Keep the scale of urbanisation in perspective: by 1750, only around 20 per cent of people lived in towns.
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