Chapter 10 Flashcards
Exchanging goods for goods
Bartering
Became the new economic centers of medieval Europe
Manors
Trade route entirely on water going from India and China across Arabian and Red Sea to the Mediterranean
Southern route
This trade route combined land and sea travel and went from the Persian gulf to Baghdad or Damascus
Central route
“Silk Road” this trade route was an over-land route across Central Asia connecting Beijing and Constantinople
Northern route
Controlled Mediterranean trade (country)
Italy
Marketplace of Northern Europe and lay at the crossroads of Northern European trade routes
Flanders
Offered incentive for serfs to make more because they could sell their extra produce
The market
One of the most famous and important of the medieval fairs was held here
Champagne
This system couldn’t meet the demands of trade fairs
The barter system
Bank comes from the Italian word _____ which means bench, referring the the money changers table
Banca
The practice of charging interest for use of lent money
Usury
Document outlining rights and freedoms of the townspeople
Charter
Organizations whose primary function was to regulate business activity of a given town
Guilds
2 kinds of guild
Merchant and craft
3 classes of guild members
Apprentice journeyman and master
Association made of more than seventy German cities in northwestern Europe
Hanseatic league
New and growing social class
Middle class
Primary centers of education
Monasteries and cathedrals
Learning was primarily under the influence of what
The Roman Church
Group of studies including grammar (Latin), rhetoric (effective speaking), and logic
Trivium
Group of studies including arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music
Quadrivium
Revival of learning was brought by these factors
Political and economic improvement, explosion to ancient documents and new ideas, and increasing need for education
Any association of people, like a guild, was called this but the term came to designate only those United for education
A universitus
