ch 10 test history Flashcards
4 factors that led to the revival of trade in europe
trade routes
town growth
market growth
renewal of money/banking
3 factors that encouraged revival of learning in europe
- improving political/economic conditions
- contact w/ byz and arabs
- need for education (growing towns)
_____ ________ gave out letters of credit which could be exchanged for cash
money changers
letters of credit made traveling _____ ___________
less dangerous
the word bank came from the word ______ which means bench
banca
how could a serf become a freeman
run away and live in a town for one year
free status, town justice, and exemption from manoral obligations are examples of
freedoms shared by townspeople
a _________ is a document outlining privileges granted to a town by the ________ ______or _____
charter; feudal lord; king
a guild regulates
business in towns
what are the two different kinds of guilds
merchant and craft
process from apprentice to master
apprentice to journeyman to master
hanseatic league is the most successful
guild
the Hanseatic league formed larger
organizations than towns did
there were __ German cities in NW europe
70
what is the German word for guild
hans
what was the new social class that arose in towns
middle class (aka men of the town)
middle class jobs included merchants, bankers, _________ and _____ __________
craftsmen; skilled laborers
the middle class did what to society
weakened it
how did universitas come to be
students traveled to Europe to find the best instructor for their subject, formed educational guild
said the first key to wisdom is asking questioms
peter abelard
known as the prince of schoolmen
thomas aquinas
theology comes _____ and the philosophy comes _________
first; second
_______ _________studied optics, physics and geography
roger bacon
vernacular
the use of common language (in literature)
chaucer wrote
the canterbury tales
______ was the common language in medieval times
latin