an association of men (rarely women), such as merchants, artisans, or professors, who worked in a particular trade and banded together to promote their economic and political interests.
What is a Guild?
100
Country that had the largest communities of Jews due to the previous Muslim rulers.
What is Spain?
100
Dominated civic life
What is Guilds?
100
These people participated in banking by the 15th century.
What is the wealthy merchant-bankers?
100
England prospered in the Middle Ages due to the trade of this.
What is wool?
200
Large churches originating in twelfth-century France; built in an architectural style featuring pointed arches, tall vaults and spires, flying buttresses, and large stained glass windows
What is a Gothic Cathedral?
200
Cites welcomed Jews in these type of jobs
What is manufacturing and business?
200
Guilds denied the membership of these groups in order to protect the interest of the families that belonged to them.
What is outsiders and Jews?
200
Wealthy merchant-bankers specialized in this.
What is money changing, loans, and making investments on behalf of other parties?
200
Europe traded this in the Middle Ages.
What are spices, groceries, linen, Egyptian paper, pearls, and perfumes? (must get at least 2)
300
A Florence family that operated and controlled banks in Italy, Flanders, and London. They also controlled the government of Florence and commissioned art works.
What is the Medici Family?
300
Jews endured persecution in times of crisis, including when this plague broke out in Europe
What is the Black Death (or bubonic plague)
300
Guilds perpetuated the dominance of this group of people.
What is men?
300
Princes and kings supported their wars and lavish courts with this.
What is credit?
300
Many new products were introduced in Europe from this area in the Middle Ages.
What is the Eastern lands?
400
An Augsburg family that had at least ten times the Medici Family had. They began as cloth merchants under Jacob “the Rich” then began to trade in Hungarian copper that was essential for casting cannons
What is the Fuggers?
400
In this year, the Spanish monarchs expelled all Jews in order to achieve religious and ethnic purity.
What is 1492?
400
These people could join some Guilds as the wives, widows, or daughters of the male Guild members.
What is women?
400
Some merchant-bankers made their own this.
What is news services?
400
The products were carried across this sea and sent to the Italian seaports and then on to major towns and cities in Europe.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
500
Author of The Canterbury Tales
Who is Chauncer?
500
This one papal city left its Jews alone throughout the centuries before 1500.
What is Rome?
500
These professions were involved in Guilds.
What are merchants, artisans, and professors?
500
Merchant-bankers handled the finances of the pope's funds, known as this, that was made by the collection of every church in the Latin West.
What is Peter's pence?
500
The people of Europe traded through these modes of transportation.
What are sea trade, caravan trade, and trade by foot?