2. By Scott Rhead

3. The guilds  The guilds were an important part of the town.  Guilds- exclusive organizations.  Provided services 1. Built chapels; 2. donated materials to churches 3. Helped construct churches 4. watched over the members 5. Provided funeral services  A guild would make sure that anything made by a guild member was up to standard and was sold for a fair price. Membership of a guild was an honor. It was a sign that you were a skilled worker who had some respect in society.

4. The two main guilds  Merchant guilds  The merchant guilds were probably the first to appear.  Merchants made organizations for protection of their horses, wagons, and goods when they traveled  Craft guilds  Were created from increased industry.  stone masons, carpenters, bakers etc. were associated together.

5. Master and apprentice  The master had a specific skill or trait that he would teach to an apprentice  An apprentice was usually a boy in his teen years  After his training he became a journeyman - a skilled worker who was paid high wages by his master

6. The middle class  The town’s guild members, merchants, and master workers became the middle class.  They were between nobles and peasants.

7. By Sorie Marah

8. Assignment 1. The feudal system of the Middle Ages helped increase trade. 2. Italian City-State increased trade by using the crusades as a way to import good from Asia. 3. Viking traders helped bring Asian goods to southern Europe. 4. Flanders, France, and the Netherlands formed the hanseatic league to manage trade in northwestern Europe. 5. The crusades helped to create a demand for Asian goods. 6. Traders were allowed to sell their goods at church's as long as they paid a tax to the church. 7. Traders among countries resulted in the need for money changes who converter the value of one current to another. 8. In the domestic system, product are made and sold in the same country. 9. Bill of exchange helped merchants deposit money at one location, they withdraw it at another. 10. In a market economy, land, labor and money are controlled by the Government.

10. Vernacular Literature  Types of Vernacular Literature: Fablioux Epics

11. Troubadours Traveling singers and poets. Wrote about love and chivalry. Sang their love poems in castles and towns. Main writers of the vernacular literature.

12. Fablioux (FA-blee-oh) were short comic stories written in rhymed verse. Fablioux was a french form of vernacular literature. Examples of Fabliouxs are stories of animals especially “Reynard the Fox”

13. The hanseatic league

14. The league  This was called the hanseatic league it was associations with in the cities of northern Germany they traded a lot of merchandise to trade in the middle ages.  The league was all an alliance between the northern towns the whole cause of this was  Most of the alliance had merchants to protect themselves by banding together to reduce the threat of attacks.