WorksheetsLife in Medieval Towns
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 9mins
A written grant of rights and privileges by a ruler or government to a community, class of people, or organization
Contract
Law
Charter
Agreement
An organization of people in the same craft
Guild
Group
Trade
Union
Choose ALL of the options of services that guilds provided....
High standards for their craft
Protection for doing a certain type of work
Free teaching of their craft
Plays from the bible relevant to their craft
A person who works for a master in a trade or craft in return for trading
Master
Journeyman
Apprentice
Leader
A body of rulings made by judges or very old traditional laws that become part of a nation's legal system
Common Law
Commonality
Court System
Trial by Combat
What led to the surplus of food and trading in Medieval Europe? (More than 1 correct)
More variety of seeds
Improvements in agriculture technology
Better weather
Better farming practices
A reason towns grew wealthier
Trade of food
Surplus'
Specialization
Factories
The practice of towns becoming very good at making certain types of goods (glass, silk, cloth, etc.)
Guilds
Specilization
Trade
Surplus
Two main types of guilds (Choose 2)
Craft
Merchant
Agriculture
Clothing
The Jewish communities of this time faced many prejudices, but what was a profession they were allowed to do?
apprentices
slaves
farmers
bankers/moneylenders
Medieval towns could be described as all of the following except....
Clean, Innovative
Dirty, full of diseases
Crowded, Cramped
Where people moved for jobs
Mostly, boys in the middle ages
were taught to do house work
had the same job as their father
could be any profession they wanted
Mostly, girls in the middle ages
were taught to do house work
had the same job as their parents
could be any profession they wanted
Reasons for spread of diseases: (Choose all correct)
Unhealthy living conditions
No running water
Used chamber pots that were emptied into the streets
No cures for common diseases
No one new how diseases were spread (Jews were often blamed)
Determining guilt or innocence by having the person fight a duel
Trial by combat
Trial by ordeal
Court System
Requiring a person to undergo torture (or some traumatic event) to determine guilt or innocence
Trial by ordeal
Trial by combat
Court system
Dolls, toys (wooden swords), Rolled hoops, Badminton, Lawn Bowling, Blind Man's Bluff are examples of ....
Trials by combat names
Trials by ordeal names
Children's games
Names of guilds
