The gathering of merchants on Sunday morning, home to things like gambling, commerce, and soccer.
What is the market?
The traditional punishment for petty thievery.
What is having the hand severed?
A group of masters and apprentices that work together not only as a business, but as an important civil force.
What is a guild?
Trees, mud, and twigs.
What are the common building materials for a peasant's home?
A Roman tradition that emphasized stone architecture, often more expensive, and a northern European tradition that emphasized wood. The Roman tradition was mostly south of the Alps, while the north tended to follow the northern European tradition.
What were the two main types of building traditions?
A thing common even today in which the participants bet large amounts of money.
What is gambling?
Courts were mostly made up of rich men. This caused bias, because they didn't understand the circumstances of other types of people.
Why weren't women and the poor believed in court?
This is when guilds first appeared.
What is the guild-related significance of the 11th century?
What is an average middle-class medieval family?
Outsider merchants in towns were forced to pay higher taxes by the guilds.
Why did guilds have the advantage in selling?
A game, originally for nobles, adapted to water because horses were too expensive for a peasant.
What is polo?
Being thrown into a river whilst tied to an anchor.
What is a test for witchcraft?
Weavers, Dyers, Wool-traders, Blacksmiths, Painters, Bakers, Soap-makers, and Leather-workers.
What are kinds of guilds?
Large home with many people and workers living in it.
What is a castle?
A dangerous game with threadbare rules, that often ended in injury or death. Hundreds of people would play, often from two or three different towns. The ball would be stuffed with rags or straw.
What is soccer?
When the men would get together to fire off arrows for sport and military training.
What were the archery tournaments?
Branding, amputation of hand, short time in jail, or the death penalty.
What were the possible outcomes for someone charged guilty with stealing?
"You shall be equal among all members."
What is one of the guild rules?
These people only lived in larger homes, with the rest of the extended family.
What are grandparents?
A game played with a set score to beat, by making the shot in as few hits as possible. By the 1400s, this game was banned in 14 different provinces by the Roman Catholic Church.
What is golf?
A game of strategy in which the opponents alternate taking turns making moves to capture the other's primary piece, that originated in India.
What is chess?
Holding a hot iron to the flesh. If there was visible burns or bruises, they were guilty. If not, they were dosed with holy water and bid farewell.
What was a way of discerning if someone was guilty?
Buying honey, fat, salt herrings, oil, millstones, hides, and fresh skins.
What was something forbidden to non-guild members?
Wealth, social class, family size, and available materials.
What did home quality vary by?
A amount of gold assigned to each person that anyone who assaulted or murdered that person would have paid.
What is a wergild?