Assess the impact of the Hundred Year's War upon Anglo-French trade

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The Hundred Years War is an important period of the English history and of the French history. The Hundred Years' War was a conflict between France and England, lasting 116 years from 1337 to 1453. It was fought primarily over claims by the English kings to the French throne, and was punctuated by several brief and two lengthy periods of peace before it finally ended in the expulsion of the English from France, with the exception of Calais. In fact, the war was a series of conflicts and can be divided in three or four phases: the Edwardian War (1337-1360), the Caroline War (1369-1389), the Lancastrian War (1415-1429), and the reversal of situation with the episode of Joan of Arc. The term "Hundred Years War" was a later historical term invented by historians to describe the series of events. One of the main causes of the Hundred Years War was the relationship between the Kings of France and England on the duchy of Aquitaine in South-western France.

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[...] During campaigns the French territory met a lot of battles, and a lot of armies went through France. They damaged the French infrastructure and that of the English territories. How the war has touched France and England? And precisely what had being it effects on the trade between France and England. If we take for example the Aquitaine, we have an example of trade before the war. English merchants would buy product of Aquitaine, and the people of the Aquitaine imported English products. [...]

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[...] During the Hundred Years War and the management of the Black Prince, Prince of Wales and son of Edward III, Aquitaine knew a long period of prosperity of about fifteen years[3]. During the war, Aquitaine had accelerated a process toward the monoculture[4]. The war made England and Aquitaine interdependent. Indeed, favored by the king, wine-growers of Aquitaine developed more and more their vineyards and abandoned some culture such as some cereals[5]. In the same way in England, the production of wine was progressively stopped and the production of sheets and of cereals was raised. [...]

[...] The general effect of the war on the French and English commerce, without being described as excellent, cannot be as well asserted as inexistent. Despite some instantaneous stops due to the conflict, the commercial exchanges over the Channel lasted during and after the war. Even if some issues dealing with heritage did not have led to the war, it did not slow down the merchandising dynamic, which became an integral part of the European culture and history. Bibliography Books BOLTON, J.L, The medieval English economy, 1150-1500, (1980), London. [...]

[...] The trade with German cities was put aside during this attempt due to it's distancing from the conflict, and furthermore it's distancing from the Anglo French trade. On the other hand, Flanders must be accounted for as its geographical location, and the role it had to play were highly strategic, notably at the start of the conflict. As was already mentioned, the cloths and wool from England were already exported frequently to the Aquitaine, which had over time diminished its own production. [...]