TCI History Alive! Life in Medieval Towns

One reason for the growth of towns in the High Middle Ages was

• improvements in farming and the revival of trade
• the growth of the Church and people did not want to live in the country
• the crusades and pilgrimages

To learn a trade, a 12 year old boy or girl became an

• guld member
• journeyman
• apprentice

An organization of people in the same craft or trade is called a 

• charter
• guild
• monastery

A person who has learned a trade but has not become an employer is a

• mendicant
• journeyman
• bishop

The buying and selling of goods is

• commerce
• agriculture
• common law

Medieval towns were large, spacious, and clean.

• True
• False

People who had this disease were ordered to live in isolated homes far away from towns

• chicken pox
• leprosy
• flu

One reason for the spread of diseases was

• garbage dumped into streams
• running water in the homes
• daily baths

People found guily of dangerous crimes such as highway robbery or murder were

• fined
• put in the stocks
• hanged or burned at the stake

A body of rulings made by judges that became part of a nation's legal system and protected an individual's rights

• domains
• common law
• guilds