Agricultural impacts of Price Revolution (3)

Question 1

What did Kamen use the tithe to show?

Answer 1

In New Castile and Catalonia:

• 1460-1560: production rose slowly
• 1560-1580: production reached highest and then declined

Question 2

Why did agricultural production reach its highest in 1560-1580?

Answer 2

• more land was used for crops

Question 3

When Spain had to import more, where did it come from?

Answer 3

• own empires eg. Sicily

- increasingly from the Baltic especially in famine years of the 1560s, 70s and 90s

Question 4

What reasons does Vassberg give for the chronic food shortages?

Answer 4

• human inefficiency
• unequal distribution of land
• poor agricultural techniques
• mules used not oxen
• problems of obtaining investment
• high rents/ taxes

Question 5

Where were the main sheep trade centres?

Answer 5

• Segovia, Toledo and Cuenca