Towns

1. Towns

2. By Scott Rhead Guilds

3. The guilds • The guilds were an important part of the town. • Guilds-exclusive organizations. • Provided services • Built chapels; • donated materials to churches • Helped construct churches • watched over the members • 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 Barter Economy

8. Assignment • The feudal system of the Middle Ages helped increase trade. • Italian City-State increased trade by using the crusades as a way to import good from Asia. • Viking traders helped bring Asian goods to southern Europe. • Flanders, France, and the Netherlands formed the hanseatic league to manage trade in northwestern Europe. • The crusades helped to create a demand for Asian goods . • Traders were allowed to sell their goods at church's as long as they paid a tax to the church. • Traders among countries resulted in the need for money changes who converter the value of one current to another. • In the domestic system, product are made and sold in the same country. • Bill of exchange helped merchants deposit money at one location, they withdraw it at another. • 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. • Fabliouxwas a french form of vernacular literature. • Examples of Fabliouxsare 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.