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WorksheetsUnit 4 - Life in Medieval Towns
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
How did new farming methods contribute to the growth of medieval European towns?
People who lived in towns could start to raise their own food.
Towns became less crowded as families moved to the country.
Enough crops were grown to sell to people who lived in towns.
Factories were set up in towns to make agricultural equipment.
In addition to new farming methods, another reason for the growth of towns was the
fall of the Roman Empire.
revival of long-distance trade.
technology to build stone walls.
discovery of better medicines.
Which term describes these relationships?
Flanders - woolen cloth
Venice - glass
imports
consumers
competition
specialization
Why did towns buy royal charters?
to keep goods at a stable price
to set up schools and universities
to gain independence from feudal lords
to avoid being overrun by the army
Which word belongs in the blank box below?
serfs
knights
bishops
merchants
If you were a customer who bought shoes from a cobbler, a guild might help you by making sure that
the business was in a home
the members paid their dues.
the workers were paid fairly
the shoes were of good quality.
Which word belongs in the empty box?
customer
journeyman
money lender
merchant seaman
How did the nature of trade goods change over the course of the Middle Ages?
from imported luxury goods to more local items
from food and clothing to precious metals
from farm equipment to tools for building houses
from one-of-a-kind homemade items to factory products
Which occupation was more open to Jews than to Christians?
banker
landlord
entertainer
shopkeeper
Which question would best help you predict the job a medieval boy would do when he grew up?
Where does he live?
What does his father do?
How well does he do in school?
How strong are his arm muscles?
Which of these did a girl’s education most often include?
logic
cooking
astronomy
mathematics
One of the biggest causes of disease in medieval towns was
unsanitary conditions.
poison in community wells.
refusal to use herbal medicines.
lack of care by family members.
Which of these eventually replaced trial by ordeal or combat?
royal rulings
court trials
church rulings
economic studies
Common law developed out of a growing body of
jury trials.
royal edicts.
decisions by judges.
pronouncements by the pope.
Which game played today was popular in medieval towns?
lacrosse
basketball
badminton
ice hockey
Which guild would be most likely to put on a mystery play about the Last Supper, the final meal Jesus ate with his followers?
the Bakers Guild
the Goldsmiths Guild
the Stone Carvers Guild
the Cloth Merchants Guild
Choose two cities that were directly involved in Mediterranean trade.
Lisbon
Toledo
Marseille
Genoa
Paris
Choose three cities that were directly involved in Mediterranean trade.
Tunis
Constantinople
London
Cologne
Venice
A geographic feature that contributed to the growth of Lisbon, London, and Danzig was their location on or near
mountainous regions
oceans, bodies of water
plateaus
Trade between Africa and Europe likely contributed to the growth of the North African city of
London
Riga
Danzig
Tunis
