Till this period, England had been underdeveloped, but after the epidemics, it began to recover slowly. The number of inhabitants increased due to new possibilities of making high profits from trading and agriculture in the new pre-industrial areas. People that used to lived on farming and cattle raising moved to those Urbana areas because they were considered profitable places, Urban people began trading with entrepreneurs and merchants who came trot the New World and East Indies and who invested in voyages of exploration to Turkey, Russia and Africa.
Merchants were ambitious about trading new luxurious goods and urban people longed for new ways of increasing their profits. The trading activity resulted in many people pining in city areas, the building of new places for lodging and the discovery of new raw materials for more production. Population was growing as fast as consumption Of goods and services. Everybody was working hard to improve their standards of living. Urban people had been suffering since the beginning Of Black Death and they wanted a change in life. o, they worked long hours in no matter what conditions. Apart from that, farming activity changed its goal It was no longer an activity done With the family for the sake of surviving. Pasture lands were converted as sources of earning more none to go beyond the scope of the city they lived in. However, the result of people coming and going from rural areas to urban areas and viscera caused an increase in the number of workers and a deterioration in the working conditions. Prices of lands rose and many people could not afford them because of their low wages.
Most of the workers worked for the pay of they day to afford the costs tot board and lodging, Todd was not enough for everybody due to the high demands, Town- dwellers grew vegetables, kept pigs, sheep and goats and brewed beer. The rich became richer and the poor – landless and wage-laborers- poorer. THE STUART They ever one of the least successful dynasties in history which reigned from 1603 to 1688 and their main monarchs were Charles l, Charles II, James I and James II. Even though they did not introduce important changes, there were remarkable revolutions in the social and economic aspects.
In the social aspect, the most important change was in the number Of population. In some cases, young couples put off their marriages until their mid-twenties because they wanted to save money for the future, either to afford their own home or to follow a career to become professionals, but in some other cases, couples deed, but they postponed the idea of having kids or decided to have a few. As a consequence, the birth rate decreased in the same speed as population number did. Another consequence of population growth was price inflation. Food prices rose, but wages were down.
For those people who did not produce their own food, it was a period of financial difficulty. A large number of the population had to buy their food and these purchases took up an increasing proportion of their Income. As regards the economic aspect, during the Stuart period, agriculture remained the main source of employment, but the work in lands was seasonal, plentiful ND cheap, so jobs were not enough for everybody in town. British economy depended on the colonized lands who had the resources- the raw material- to produce new products for exportation.
England became the main exporter of grains. New methods of farming were introduced, there was an skilful alternation of crops and more extensive use of fertilizers. Those changes gave landlords better prospects Of seeing a return on the money he invested in land. There was a rise in the settlement of market towns which were the main places where the home-made goods were displayed and sold. The stall-holders or retailers splayed their wares which were bought by the population who met their needs.
Towns became centers for the distribution of the produce of the world and as a consequence most of the urban growth was concentrated there. There was a continuous flow of gentlemen and prosperous farmers who came to town for business or for the shops and who would stop to take advice for lawyers, doctors and estate agents. Religion was an important aspect too during the Stuart reign. The break from the Catholic church gave rise to all sorts of different protestant sects. The Stuart had the idea that the British could make relationships with other churches.
