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Agriculture & Land
Population Explosion
Cottage Industry
Building Global Economy
100
The plan by which medieval Farmers organised their crops.
What is the Open Field System
100
The two predominant reasons why European population growth was so stable for hundreds of years.
What is disease & famine?
100
The manufacturing with hand tools in personal cottages.
What is cottage industries?
100
A system of economic regulation that aimed at increasing the power of the state through trade.
What is mercantilism?
200
Open meadows for hay & natural pastures used by all medieval farmers.
What were common lands
200
The one epidemic that was re-occuring from the 14th throught the 18th century.
What is the bubonic plague or black death?
200
The system by which merchants "Put-Out," raw materials for home workers to produce.
What is the Putting Out system?
200
Laws that said all foriegn goods coming into England must come in on English ships with English crews.
What are the Navigation Acts?
300
A process by which European farmers slowly changed the way they farmed, producing more goods for consumption.
What is the Agricultural Revolution?
300
These areas were systematically eliminated from England & the Netherlands first, drastically reducing disease.
What is swamp drainage?
300
This Country tookk advantage of rural manufacturing first.
What is England?
300
The reason Britain fought in the War of Spanish Succession.
What is preventing their colonies from being surounded in North America?
400
The two countries that reclaimed the most land & used the most advanced farming techniques.
What England & the Netherlands?
400
These transportation improvements lead to fresher food & a larger variety of it for most people.
What is road & canal construction?
400
This early industry was heavily opulated by English women.
What is textiles?
400
Cheap land & a dramatic labor shortage lead to this evil institution.
What is the Atlantic Slave Trade?
500
The end result of creating market-oriented agriculture that ended independent, small farmers & created a large, landless labor force.
What is proletarianization?
500
This food, more than anything else, caused the population explosion in the 18th century.
What is the potato?
500
An organization of professional laborers who control quality & price on goods & services throughout European history.
What are guilds?
500
This colonial empire almost broke up, but not for the invervention of its foriegn king.
What is Spain?