TOWNS

GUILDSBy Scott Rhead

The guilds The guilds were an important part of the town.

Guilds- exclusive organizations.

Provided services

1. Built chapels;

2. donated materials to churches

3. Helped construct churches

4. watched over the members

5. Provided funeral services A guild would make sure that anything made by a guild

member was up to standard and was sold for a fair price. Membership of a guild was an honor. It was a sign that you were a skilled worker who had some respect in society.

The two main guilds Merchant guilds The merchant guilds were probably the first

to appear. Merchants made organizations for

protection of their horses, wagons, and goods when they traveled

Craft guilds Were created from increased industry. stone masons, carpenters, bakers etc. were

associated together.

Master and apprentice

The master had a specific skill or trait that he would teach to an apprentice

An apprentice was usually a boy in his teen years

After his training he became a journeyman - a skilled worker who was paid high wages by his master

The middle class

The town’s guild members, merchants, and master workers became the middle class.

They were between nobles and peasants.

BARTER ECONOMYBy Sorie Marah

Assignment1. The feudal system of the Middle Ages helped increase trade.

2. Italian City-State increased trade by using the crusades as a way to import good from Asia.

3. Viking traders helped bring Asian goods to southern Europe.

4. Flanders, France, and the Netherlands formed the hanseatic league to manage trade in northwestern Europe.

5. The crusades helped to create a demand for Asian goods .

6. Traders were allowed to sell their goods at church's as long as they paid a tax to the church.

7. Traders among countries resulted in the need for money changes who converter the value of one current to another.

8. In the domestic system, product are made and sold in the same country.

9. Bill of exchange helped merchants deposit money at one location, they withdraw it at another.

10. In a market economy, land, labor and money are controlled by the Government.

Vernacular Literature

Types of Vernacular Literature:• Fablioux • Epics

Troubadours

• Traveling singers and poets. • Wrote about love and chivalry. • Sang their love poems in castles and

towns. • Main writers of the vernacular

literature.

• Fablioux (FA-blee-oh) were short comic stories written in rhymed verse.

• Fablioux was a french form of vernacular literature.

• Examples of Fabliouxs are stories of animals especially “Reynard the Fox”

The hanseatic league

The league

This was called the hanseatic league it was associations with in the cities of northern Germany they traded a lot of merchandise to trade in the middle ages.

The league was all an alliance between the northern towns the whole cause of this was

Most of the alliance had merchants to protect themselves by banding together to reduce the threat of attacks.