Poop

Question 1

Special trade gatherings

Answer 1

Fairs

Question 2

Name given to a town near a castle

Answer 2

Burg

Question 3

Things for sale at a fair

Answer 3

Wares

Question 4

Documents giving townspeople charge of their own affairs

Answer 4

Charters

Question 5

In Italy, political groups seeking self government

Answer 5

Communes

Question 6

Major cause of the plague in the Middle Ages

Answer 6

Diseased rats

Question 7

Traveling musicians

Answer 7

Troubadours

Question 8

Rich merchants who lived in town

Answer 8

Burghers

Question 9

Instrument of punishment for minor crimes

Answer 9

Stocks

Question 10

Gatherings for merchants sponsored by feudal nobles

Answer 10

Fairs

Question 11

Number of Europeans who died from the plague

Answer 11

1 in 3

Question 12

Association of merchants, artisans, and skilled workers

Answer 12

Guild

Question 13

Documents of town government

Answer 13

Charters

Question 14

Person paid daily wages to work for an expert

Answer 14

Journeymen

Question 15

Wrote Canterbury Tales in people native languages

Answer 15

Chaucer

Question 16

Person highly skilled in trade, craft, or business

Answer 16

Master

Question 17

Wrote Divine Comedy in people’s native languages

Answer 17

Dante

Question 18

Goods offered for sale by merchants

Answer 18

Wares

Question 19

This declined by the 1400s because of growing wealth and power of merchants and townspeople

Answer 19

Feudalism

Question 20

Person in training to learn a trade or craft

Answer 20

Apprentice

Question 21

Came from the near east to Western Europe by way of Venice

Answer 21

Spices and other luxuries

Question 22

The main interest of this group was to protect their members

Answer 22

Medieval guilds

Question 23

England became Flanders most important trading partner by supplying wool

Answer 23

1300