economic development

• what is the intercursus magnus?

  A trade agreement between England and the Netherlands in 1496.
• what is the intercursus malus?

  An agreement with Juana and Phillip that planned to give power to English merchants but didn't occur.
• what does pastoral mean?

  farming involving animals
• what does real wages mean?

  in reality what you can buy with your money. when real wages increase, you can buy more, but when real wages decrease, you can buy less.
• what does subsistence crises mean?

  not enough farming, poor harvest, no food
• what happened in the yorkshire rebellion?

  Protests and uprisings against high taxes and religious policies in Yorkshire, England.
• what does arable mean?

  crop farming
• what does mixed farming mean?

  mixture of arable and pastoral farming
• what is open-field husbandry?

  Agricultural system in which fields are not divided by fences or hedges.
• what are enclosures?

  Enclosures refer to the process of converting common lands into privately owned property.
• what percentage of english exports were cloth?

  90%
• what was the treaty of etaples?

  A treaty signed between England and France in 1492, ending the conflict known as the War of the Roses.
• what are sectional interests?

  Specific interests or concerns of a particular group or region within a larger society or organization.
• what were navigation acts?

  Trade regulations imposed by England on its American colonies in the 17th and 18th centuries.