Chapter 7 Section 4 Flashcards
Charter
A written document that set out the rights and privileges of a town.
Capital
Money or wealth used to invest in business or enterprise.
Partnership
A group of merchants who joined together to finace a large-scale venture that would have been too costly for any individual trader. This practice made capital more easily available.
Tenant Farmer
Someone who would pay rent to a lord to farm part of the lord’s land.
Middle Class
A group of people, including merchants, traders, and artisans, whose rank was between nobles and peasants.
Guild
An association of merchants or artisans who cooperated to uphold standards of their trade and to protect their economic interests.
Apprentice
A young person learning a trade from a master.
Journeyman
A salaried worker employed by a guild master.
Flanders
A region that included parts of present-day northern France, Belgium, and the Netherlands. It was an important industrial and financial center of Northern Europe during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
Agrarian Society
An agricultural society.
Hanseatic League
Formed by German towns along the Baltic Sea in the 1200s, it was an association to protect their trading interests. This dominated trade in Northern Europe for more than 150 years.
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
In the Canterbury Tales, a portrait of medieval English society is presented. The Tales are a series of poems that focus on 29 men and women who are on a pilgrimage to the tomb of St. Thomas Becket in Canterbury.
