Economy VII

Question 1

What years were the Intercursus Magnus and the Intercursus Malus signed?

Answer 1

1496; 1506

Question 2

What percentage of export revenue did cloth make up under Henry VII?

Answer 2

90%

Question 3

What was open field husbandry?

Answer 3

Where tenant farmers tended strips of land in open fields with common rights

Question 4

In what year did Henry VIIs parliament pass legislation against enclosure?

Answer 4

1489

Question 5

What happened to most of the coal mined in Newcastle?

Answer 5

It was shipped to London for domestic and industrial fuel

Question 6

Henry failed to break the dominance over trade in the Baltic which was held by which group?

Answer 6

The Hanseatic league

Question 7

What was the most significant English export and where was most trade established?

Answer 7

Cloth through Antwerp

Question 8

When was the first blast furnace established in England?

Answer 8

1496

Question 9

The trade of which product increased by 60% during Henry VII’s reign?

Answer 9

Cloth

Question 10

The export price of which products reduced in the 1490s?

Answer 10

Wool and grain

Question 11

To which explorers did Henry VII provide financial support?

Answer 11

John and Sebastian Cabot

Question 12

What were enclosures?

Answer 12

Public land which was closed off from public access, normally to support sheep grazing

Question 13

What was the name of the trading company that dominated London’s cloth trade?

Answer 13

The Merchant Adventurers

Question 14

When was the first blast furnace established in England?

Answer 14

1497

Question 15

What did the Navigation Acts do, and when were they?

Answer 15

They stipulated that goods from the mother country should can only be carried in ships from that country 1485, 1489, 1494