Lesson 7 - Towns and Cities

Question 1

What are 2 points about Towns and Cities?

Answer 1

1. Location and trading opportunities encouraged the growth of towns
2. People wanted to live close to the castle as it made them feel more secure

Question 2

What leads to the bourgeoise?

Answer 2

middle class

Question 3

What 2 things did the middle class do to lords?

Answer 3

1. They wanted to control towns and their trade for their own benefit, not the lords
2. They tried to get the lords to sell them a town charter

Question 4

What 4 things did this give the middle class the right to do?

Answer 4

Hold a market
Control prices
Make and administer laws
Elect a mayor and town council

Question 5

What did merchants have to do to enter a town?

Answer 5

Pay taxes

Question 6

How did towns develop?

Answer 6

Towns developed on land belonging to local lords who demanded taxes

Question 7

Where was silk traded from?

Answer 7

China, Persia, and Syria

Question 8

Where was cotton from?

Answer 8

Egypt and India

Question 9

Where was ivory from?

Answer 9

Ethiopia

Question 10

Where was Pearl from?

Answer 10

Persian Gulf and Ceylon

Question 11

Which city was the first to develop banking and money?

Answer 11

The city of Genoa was one of the first to have people develop banking and money changing as a business.

Question 12

What are the 3 points about banking and money exchange?

Answer 12

1. Over time, instead of money, merchants used bills of exchange guaranteed by one of the newly emerging Italian banks.
2. Florence’s Peruzzi and Medici banking families had agents in every major city organising loans at high-interest rates.
3. Bankers disguised the loans in various ways to avoid disobeying the Church’s money lending ban.