Unit 2: Chapter 4- Merchants, Markets, and Mud

How did trade change where and how people lived during the Middle Ages?

Towns _____________ as the middle class created new businesses.

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• grew

• got smaller

As more people became involved in trade and commerce, what group grew in importance?

The ____________ class grew in importance and included a group of merchants and craftsmen.

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• middle

• upper

Merchants and craftsmen _______________ the lords with money and goods.

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• chartered

• paid

• laws

Lords granted towns special _______________, which allowed them to make their own _______________.

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• people, castle

• noblemen, knights

• charters, laws

Because so many people moved into the city, European towns and cities became ____________.

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• dry

• empty

• fancy

• overcrowded

.Put the following three steps into the order in which they take place: journeyman, master craftsman, apprentice

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• 1. 1. apprentice

  2. 2. master craftsman

  3. 3. journeyman

• 1. 1. apprentice

  2. 2. journeyman

  3. 3. master craftsman

• 1. 1. journeyman

  2. 2. apprentice

  3. 3. master craftsman

What was a negative thing about life in a town in the Middle Ages?

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• Merchants and craftsmen were becoming wealthy (rich)

• There were schools called Universities

• diseases spread quickly

In towns, shops opened as early as _________.

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• 9:00 AM

• 6:00 AM

• 7:30 AM

• 8:00 AM

What was a common disease called?

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• The Red Illness

• The Plague

• The Black Death

• The Lungs of Doom

What caused fires in houses in the Middle Ages?

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• diseases

• broken heating systems

• people cooking in their homes