Growing Towns
Better farming methods allowed farmers to produce more of this, which could support people living in towns?
Food/a food surplus
Flanders became especially famous for producing this.
Woolen cloth
This organization regulated a particular craft or trade.
A guild
One of the biggest causes of disease in medieval towns was this type of living condition.
Unsanitary conditions
Towns purchased this document to gain greater independence from feudal lords.
Royal charter
Besides improved farming, the revival of this activity was a major reason medieval towns grew?
Long-distance trade
Venice became famous throughout Europe for producing this material.
Glass
A young person learning a craft from an experienced master held this position.
An apprentice
A medieval boy's future occupation was often influenced by this person's work.
His father
This modern game was also enjoyed by people living in medieval towns.
Badminton
Farming improvements created extra crops. Explain what farmers could do with those extra crops that helped towns grow.
Sell them to people living in towns/markets
When a town becomes especially known for producing one particular good, such as Flanders making woolen cloth, it demonstrates this economic idea.
Specialization
Put these three positions in the correct order: master, journeyman, apprentice.
Apprentice → journeyman → master
Medieval girls were commonly educated at home in skills such as this household activity.
Cooking
These two unusual methods were once used to determine guilt or innocence before court trials became more common.
Trial by ordeal and trial by combat
Complete the chain: Improved farming → food surplus → crops could be sold → ________.
More people could live in towns/town populations could grow
Rivers, seas, and other waterways helped trading towns grow mainly because they made this easier.
Transportation and trade
You've completed your apprenticeship and now earn money for your work, but you haven't opened your own shop. What are you?
A journeyman
Name TWO conditions in medieval towns that contributed to the spread of disease.
Garbage/waste in streets or waterways, crowded conditions, lack of running water, rats/fleas, poor sanitation, etc.
Court trials eventually replaced trials by ordeal and combat, while this system developed from a growing collection of decisions made by judges.
Common law
Explain the complete connection between the revival of trade and the growth of medieval towns.
Trade brought merchants, craftspeople, goods, markets and customers together, causing trading centers to attract people and expand
Flanders produces woolen cloth while Venice produces glass. Explain why this system encouraged trade between towns.
Specialization allowed towns to produce particular goods and exchange them for goods produced elsewhere
Give ONE way guilds helped workers AND ONE way they helped customers.
Protecting/regulating workers and maintaining standards/quality for customers
You leave a feudal manor and enter a medieval town. Name TWO things about everyday life that would immediately be different or noticeable.
Markets/trade, specialized jobs, guilds, crowded housing, sanitation problems, entertainment, greater town independence, etc.
Your town is wealthy from trade but is tired of paying taxes to and being controlled by its feudal lord. What should the town obtain, and what would it gain?
Royal charter, giving the town greater independence/self-government