Normans - Life In A Norman Town

Question 1

Whats a charter contract?

Answer 1

A contract between the people and the king

Question 2

What did they pay to the king?

Answer 2

Taxes

Question 3

Who was jt ran by

Answer 3

Corporation and a mayor

Question 4

What would the council do?

Answer 4

Maintain walls,clean the streets and pay the town gaurds

Question 5

What were high walls for

Answer 5

Protection

Question 6

What did the strong gates do

Answer 6

Only way in and out, they were opened at dawn and closed at sunset

Question 7

What did u have to do to get in

Answer 7

Pay a toll

Question 8

What were narrow streets

Answer 8

They had shops and houses on narrow streets

Question 9

What was located in the centre of the town

Answer 9

A large church, some big towns had two

Question 10

What were the dangers in norman towns

Answer 10

Fire, curfews were set in place (cover-fires) when all fires had to be put out.
Disease , cramped,dirty, people living close
Getting ht by toilet waste , no toilets, open drains running through the street and people threw their waste out the window

Question 11

What did they belive that bad smells would. Lead to

Answer 11

Disease

Question 12

Whats life elike for a crafts man

Answer 12

They made stuff for the town
They were guilds, u had to pay a feee to be a member
A guild would set the standered of quality
They decided what prices could be charged and the wages that could be paid
How to become one
-boys woudl work in theire fathers shop frok 12-15
- then would become a apprentice and they would live with a master craftsman
- tgey sleep in the workshops and he would be treated very harshyly with no pay
-a appreciataship usally lasted 7 years
-the. He becoms a journey man and then he gets payed
- apply for the guild to beckme a craftsman