What was one major basis of the political power of the aristocracy?
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Correct answer: Landownership
Landownership was a major source of aristocratic wealth and influence. Large estates produced income, gave owners authority over dependent populations and strengthened their social standing in political institutions. Low wages, school examinations and factory work did not provide the inherited economic foundation traditionally associated with aristocratic power. Thus option A is correct.
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Landownership
Why is this the correct answer?
Landownership was a major source of aristocratic wealth and influence. Large estates produced income, gave owners authority over dependent populations and strengthened their social standing in political institutions. Low wages, school examinations and factory work did not provide the inherited economic foundation traditionally associated with aristocratic power. Thus option A is correct.
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This is a Class 10 Social Science question. Chapter: The Age of Industrialisation. Topic: The Making of Nationalism in Europe (Aristocracy, New Middle Class, Liberal Nationalism).
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