Revival of Towns and Trade

Crop Rotation

• Practice of changing the use of fields over time.

• Unplanted

• System of planting invented in the High Middle Ages which increased the amount of land that could be planted each year.

• Association of people who have a common interest.

Fallow

• Association of people who have a common interest.

• System of planting invented in the High Middle Ages which increased the amount of land that could be planted each year.

• Unplanted.

• Drawing or pulling, as of a load.

Three - field system

• Practice of changing the use of fields over time.

• Unplanted.

• Association of people who have a common interest.

• System of planting invented in the High Middle Ages which increased the amount of land that could be planted each year.

Guild

• System of planting invented in the High Middle Ages which increased the amount of land that could be planted each year.

• Association of people who have a common interest.

• Drawing or pulling, as of a land.

• To stop

Draft

• Unplanted.

• To stop.

• Drawing or pulling, as of a land.

• System of planting invented in the High Middle Ages which increased the amount of land that could be planted each year.

Cease

• To stop.

• Unplanted.

• System of planting invented in the High Middle Ages which increased the amount of land that could be planted each year.

• Association of people who have a common interest.

The chief purpose of medieval fairs was to

• increase agricultural output

• promote trade

• help manors become self-sufficient

• protect the interests of craftworkers

Why did farmers let some fields lie fallow?

• to reduce the surplus of crops

• to bring new land under cultivation

• to increase the soil's productivity

• to allow serfs to grow their own food

What was one result of the three-field system?

• Farmers could share their land and labor.

• Farmers could clear more forest land.

• Farmers could produce more crops each year.

• Farmers could use draft animals to plow their land.

Why did medieval towns offer more freedom than manors?

• Towns had no church officials.

• Towns had fewer guilds to restrict workers.

• Towns had no system of social classes.

• Towns were beyond the control of feudal lords.