Tudor Trade Research Paper

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Basic research on the merchants in France, England, and, Prussia. 1600 My argument is that French merchants are the bests off because the nobles and king support them so failure may not be the end for them. Also most merchants are alone or they have to pay for safety while French they want them to come back because they are the ones who fund all the wars they are fighting. The English The English overseas trade of the 16th century went through two sides separated by a lengthy period, which can be described as a period that soon became the English trade system. These two sides are unlike each other in the broader look at things, and they changed by the time of Queen Elisabeth. This was what the author called the older style of English trade, as…show more content…
The similarities between 1600 to 1700 Tudor trade and the traditional English late mediaeval trade are so apparent that it would be more correct to view the two times as simply one. During the huge changes between the dark ages and the renaissance many things happened but the English Tudor trade actually remained the same until the middle of the sixteenth century. The 1600 or dark ages of English Tudor trading was rather simple and in the general nature of the distribution of the trading routes. In other words, the English did not trade extensively. The Dutch where people that where more of a trading point they themselves did not trade much but held as a messenger of trade for the English. they often traded for the English in huge packs and got a bit of money of off them.. The mediaeval and Early Tudor hub of this pan-European Dutch trade was the port city of Antwerp. (Davis 1973, 11)Other minor direct trading destinations of the early Tudor English merchants included Bilbao in Spain; Bordeaux in France; Lubeck, Rostock, Gdansk, and Konigsberg which were scattered around the German states and the Rzeczpospolita, but all constituted the core of the Hanseatic League. The English also traded early

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