HIST 1019 : Democracy, Rights & Empire I [COMPLETE NOTES Part 4] -- got a 4.0 in the course
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Oligopily in which the few rich own all: allowed england to become a player in global trade network, trade wool for wine in bordeaux, dutch interested in wool, and spanish (textiles, first half of 16th century increased export of wool by 170%, collapse of italian wool market less wool from italy to germany. 74% = cloth: england creating a modern economy rather than just sell raw materials, honning in on london, port city easy access to markets, gave birth to secondary port cities (bristol, atlantic city of bristol (@ center of east to west transformation) wool for wine, growing and prosperous port city, bristol merchants, like london merchants, were tied to the continent by the wool for wine dealings, bristol wool merchants (raw only) were selling to bordeaux for wine, provided steady income for a port town like bristol, then, sadly, at 1453 (end of 100 years war), england loses claim to the.