Henry VII - Economy Flashcards
(19 cards)
Rearranging open fields into fields seperated by hedges or fences.
Enclosure
A league of German towns which dominated trade in the Baltic
Hanseatic League
Labour intensive farming which produced crops using basic tools including ploughs.
Arable Farming
Refusal to participate in trade with another specified country.
Trade Embargo
A form of taxation, taken from earnings to support the church.
Tithes
Land in public ownership - it belongs to the people.
Common Land
Formed in the city of London and the most powerful business organisation during Henry VII’s reign.
Merchant Adventures
First Navigation Act - specified English ships/crew to be used on certain routes.
1485
Henry VII sponsors a blast furnance in Kent as part of smelting works to make weapons for the Scots war.
1486
John Cabot’s voyage to the American continent.
1487
First act against enclosure.
1488
Ended the Hansa league’s privilege in exporting buillion from England.
1489
Intercursus Magnus allowed free trade with Burgundy.
1496
Intercursus Malus gave the English such trade privileges the Burgundians did not have.
1506
A system of farming which involves the growing of crops as well as the raising of animals as livestock.
Mixed Farming
Farming involving the rearing of animals - either for animal by-products such as milk, eggs or wool, or for meat.
Pastoral Farming
Denotes the legal right of tenants to use common land.
Common Rights
Received authorisation from Henry VII to ‘search out any isles , countries, regions or provinces of heathens and infidels whomsoever set in any part of the world so ever, which have been before these times unknown to all Christians’
John Cabot
Received authorisation from Henry VII to explore other countries. He sailed in 1497 to the Newfoundland. He set off on his second voyage, but never returned.
John Cabot
