Englands Wealth Flashcards
TRADE
Positive 3
- Cloth trade
- Merchant adventurers
- Navigation acts
TRADE
Pos
1. Cloth trade
90% English exports
TRADE
Pos
2. The Merchant Adventurers
English trade Close with Henry
Richest company after trade embargo
TRADE
Pos
3. Navigation acts
Helped English merchants - protects from foreign markets. More exploration
TRADE
Negative 3
- Cloth trade
- Hanseatic League / merchant adventurers
- Mediterranean trade
TRADE
Neg
1. Cloth trade
Steady decline
TRADE
Neg
2. Hanseatic league / merchant adventurers
•Hanseatic league (Europe) favoured over merchant adventurers (English) to secure Henry’s crown
-Phillip and Jo give up Edmund de la Pole
TRADE
Neg
3. Mediterranean trade
Couldn’t break into it
France travelling a lot
FARMING
POS 3
- Mixed / pastoral
- Open field husbandry
- Enclosure farming
FARMING
NEG 1
- Enclosure farming
FARMING
Pos
1. Mixed / pastoral
Mixed - 3/4 of farms
Pastoral (cows) - 1/4
FARMING
pos
2. Open field husbandry
Farms split and rotate annually to give land a rest
FARMING
Pos
3. Enclosure farming
Strip farming swapped for enclosure farming - more efficient
FARMING
Neg
1. Enclosure farming
Strip farmers lost land and money
Damaged economy long term
OVERALL ECONOMY
Pos
3
1 disposable income
2. Little discontentment
3. Black Death outcome
OVERALL ECONOMY
Pos
1. Disposable income
Rising since war of roses
OVERALL ECONOMY
Pos
2. Little discontentment
No one starving
•John guy - britains greatest success was the ability to feed itself
britains greatest success was the ability to feed itself
Historian?
John guy
OVERALL ECONOMY
Pos
3. Black Death outcome
1/3 dead to Black Death
•people who survived profited off of jobs and higher wages
OVERALL ECONOMY
Neg
2
- Inflation
- Rebellions
OVERALL ECONOMY
Neg
1. Inflation
Inflation near end of reign
OVERALL ECONOMY
Neg
2. Rebellions
Cornish and Yorkshire rebellion triggered by taxes
