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During the 1200s, the upper-class English had adopted Norman fashions and switched from beer to wine. The problem was that England could not grow grapes to produce the wine that many of the English now favored and had to import it. When the French tried to regain domination of the Flanders region in order to control its wealth (i.e. vineyards), the English could not permit this as it would mean that the French would control their main source of foreign import (i.e. wine). A civil war soon broke out in Flanders, with the English supporting the wine makers and the French supporting the land owners. This marked one major cause of the 100 Years War.