The cloth trade

Question 1

what % of exports did the cloth trade make up

Answer 1

90%

Question 2

How much did historian Jack Lander say the volume of cloth exports had increased by during Henry’s reign

Answer 2

over 60%

Question 3

What did the bulk of exports shift to as the century progressed and why was this good

Answer 3

To finished cloth which provided extra income for agrarian workers through the domestic process

Question 4

which towns were made prosperous by the cloth trade
x2

Answer 4

Lavenham
Suffolk

Question 5

Why was the cloth trade good for London

Answer 5

Cloth exported through London by Merchant adventurers
reenforced London’s commercial dominance

Question 6

who were the Hanseatic league

Answer 6

trading group in the Baltic sea that trading privileges
the privileges were reasserted through treaties in 1474 and 1504
Henrys motivation was to keep them from joining Yorkist threat