Economy Trade And Empire Flashcards
Market gardens
A specialist producer of fruits and vegetables for sale
Common land
Land owned by one person but over which people have certain rights over
Yeomen
Farmers who owned their land often consisting of large farms, could not hold as much property of as a member of the gentry
Husbandmen
Tennant farmers or small land owners
What was specialised farming
Different regions specialising in certain types of farming suited to their condition
How did specialise farming benefit yeomen
Owned a large amount of land and stopped the possibility of a poor harvest
How did specialised farming not help yeomen
They could not afford large scale changes and were brought out of land
How did husbandmen benefit from specialised farming
They were able to grow in numbers and produced products that were in demand
How did husbandmen not benefit from specialised farming
Produced too little
Not able to exploit opportunities
Slow for specialisation techniques
Had mixed fourrures
What is enclosure
the practice of dividing up land which was once owned by the people, that was typically large open fields into smaller ‘enclosed’ pieces of land that instead belonged to one person only.
How did enclosure stay the same
Already a common method in medieval period
Mostly used for sheep to create more space so that they could be grazed and create more wool
How did enclosure change
After 1660 happened more quickly
A lot of land was left
7 million actres of field left empty
1700 1.8 million were left empty
