Trade & Industry

• What percent of exports was cloth at the end of the 15th century?

  90%
• Where was cloth sent?

  All over europe
• What other industries were there?

  Mining, Metal working, leatherwork, shipbuilding, papermaking, brewing
• Navigation Acts of 1485 & 1489


  Ruled that only English ships could carry certain products to and from English ports, designed to boost the shipbuilding industry
• Intercursus Magnus 1496


  Between Henry VII & Philip IV, ended Henrys trade embargo on trade with the Netherlands, English merchants could export to any part of Burgundy
• What did the Hanseatic league do?


  Successful in limiting the development on English trade in Baltic
• 1497


  John Cabot set sail from Bristol, searching for new fishing grounds, found Newfoundland, reported existence of fishing grounds
• 1499/1500


  William Weston, Led an expedition to the New World
• 1508


  Sebastian Cabot, Led an unsuccessful attempt to find the North-West passage to Asia