Life In Town

Question 1

How many people lived in the town

Answer 1

50,000

Question 2

What were built around cities

Answer 2

Walls

Question 3

What was different about streets then and now

Answer 3

They were narrow and winding and there was also open sewage

Question 4

What was dumped in the street

Answer 4

Everything

Question 5

What sometimes happened at night

Answer 5

Swine herds drove pigs around to eat everything

Question 6

What were some events that’s happened in town

Answer 6

Pageants plays people could also see bear baiting and other blood sports

Question 7

What changed because of trade

Answer 7

Money used to be unimportant you status depended on how much land you owned with trade people became independent and powerful because they could make money

Question 8

What were townspeople called in England

Answer 8

Burgesses

Question 9

What did some merchants become

Answer 9

Richer than some fuedal owners

Question 10

Who had a hard time adjusting to money didn’t mean position

Answer 10

Fuedal owners

Question 11

Who thought trading was below them

Answer 11

Nobles

Question 12

What would spell the end of fuedalism

Answer 12

Middle class with its power money and desire for freedom

Question 13

What could people do in town

Answer 13

Anything they could marry whom they wanted and make money if they could

Question 14

How did the town help runaway serfs

Answer 14

There was a law that said if you were a runaway serf and you stayed in town for a year and a half without being noticed u were free

Question 15

What could fuedal lords and manor courts not control

Answer 15

People who got to live in the town

Question 16

What does charter mean

Answer 16

A written order authorizing the right to operate as a town

Question 17

What were most medieval towns

Answer 17

Chartered which means they were paid for or were given the right to exist by the local lord or monarch

Question 18

What did a charter do

Answer 18

Gave a town certain privileges one of which was that the town could govern itself

Question 19

Who were the most powerful

Answer 19

The people belonging to the merchant guilds

Question 20

Who were the guilds for

Answer 20

People who bought and sold goods and who financed ships and over land caravans to trade to distant lands

Question 21

What market became extremely powerful

Answer 21

The ones belonging to the hanseatic league grew so powerful that they had there own army