Chapter 14 Section 2

Question 1

Three field system

Answer 1

A system of farming developed in medieval Europe, in which farm land was divided into three fields of equal size and each of these was successively planted with a winter crop, planted with a spring crop, and left unplanted

Question 2

Guild

Answer 2

A Medieval association of people working at the same occupation, which controlled its members’ wages and prices

Question 3

Commercial Revolution

Answer 3

The expansion of trade and business that transformed European economic during the 16th and 17th centuries

Question 4

Burgher

Answer 4

A medieval merchant-class town dweller

Question 5

Vernacular

Answer 5

The everyday language of people in a region or country

Question 6

Thomas Aquinas

Answer 6

A Scholar who argued that religious truths could be proved through logical argument. He also wrote Summa Theologicae between 1267 and 1273

Question 7

Scholastics

Answer 7

Scholars who gathered and taught at medieval European universities