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Vocab
How a Town Was Formed
Towns and Trade
Living in a Town
Vocab Cont.
100
This is when a person trades goods rather than money for goods or services
What is bartering?
100
These are the first people to settle into towns.
Who are traders?
100
This is what replaced bartering for goods.
What is the use of money?
100
This is what the guilds provided for people besides work.
What is social life, celebrations, and care for sick or old members?
100
These are places to worship.
What are cathedrals?
200
These are props attached to the wall to add extra support
What are buttresses?
200
This is how a town changed to hold more people.
What is adding stories to buildings, tearing town walls down, and rebuilding town walls farther out?
200
This is where the word bank comes from.
What is the Italian word banca for bench?
200
These are the two dangers that especially occurred in medieval towns.
What are fire and disease?
200
These are groups of people who sell the same items and follow the same rules.
What are guilds?
300
This is an architecture style of the early Middle Ages using many elements of Roman style
What is Romanesque?
300
This is the event that townspeople celebrated every year.
What is the day they received their charter?
300
This is why the farmer needed local craftsmen.
What is the need for tools and goods that they could not produce themselves?
300
This is the religion most medieval townspeople followed.
What is Roman Catholic?
300
This is a light and airy architecture style of the early Middle Ages using many elements of Roman style.
What is gothic?
400
This is the best piece of work presented by a journeyman.
What is a masterpiece?
400
These are other people who came to live in the towns.
Who are peasant families, nobles' sons, craftsmen, and priests?
400
This is why craftsmen and merchants needed farmers.
What is the need for produce for food?
400
This is the new order of clergy the Roman Catholic Church sent out.
What are friars?
400
These are letters stating how much money the owner had left at the bank, allowing him to spend his money from town to town.
What are letters of credit?
500
This is a new order of clergy sent out by the church.
What are friars?
500
These are two reasons people moved to towns.
What is growth of trade and the lack of a place on the manorial lands?
500
This is the fee that a bank charges in exchange for loaning money to a customer.
What is interest?
500
This is how the new orders of clergy differed from others.
What is living in or near towns, preaching, and working directly with the poor and sick?
500
These are people who exchanged money from other towns for local coins.
What are moneychangers?