1. Growth of Towns & The Life and Culture in the Middle Ages
Section 3 - 6

2. Essential Questions What is a charter and what are the four rights?
What is a Merchant Guild?
What is a Craft Guild?
Where did the plague come from?
What animal spread the plague?
How did humans get the plague?
How did Nostradamus say a human could fight the plague?

3. Essential Questions
8. Who fought in the 100 years war? 9. What was the Great Schism?

4. State Standards F2- System of Human Organization
Western Europe to Explain the workings of feudalism, manorialism, and the growth of centralized monarchies and city-states in Europe
Roman Catholic Church impact on society
Trade lead to the growth of towns and cities

5. Rights of Townspeople Trade & cities grow together
Townspeople did not fit into the manorial system
Made living by making and trading goods
Lords would grant Charters
Written statement of the town’s rights
They would gain 4 basic rights
Freedom
Exemption
Town Justice
Commercial privileges

6. 4 Rights
Freedom- Anyone who lived in a town for a year and a day became free. This included serfs who escaped from a manor to a town
Exemption- Townspeople won the right of bearing exempt, or free, from ever having to work on the manor.

7. 4 Rights
Town Justice- Towns had their own courts. Leading citizens tried cases that involved townspeople.
Commercial Privileges- Townspeople could sell goods freely in the town market. They could also charge tolls to outsiders who wanted to trade there.

8. Guilds
Merchant Guild- sole right to trade if you were part of that town. (tight-knit group)
Craft Guild- shoemaker, weaving. (set wages, prices, working conditions)
Apprentice- parents paid to put him into a master workers house. (journey man)
Merchants and master workers- became middle class. (between the class of nobles and peasant and unskilled workers.

9. Towns Offered a chance for change in a serfs life.
Black Death- plague began in Asia/China and spread along the busy trade routes. Came into Europe through Italy.
Black rats on the ship carried the disease
Flea bites- main reason
Rats came from Asia

10. Nostradamus
He stated that exercise would help a person fight against the Plague.
Keep the body healthy and it has the ability to fight
Fresh air was an effective way to fight the plague
People would often stay inside and close their windows and this would increase the strength of the Plague.

11. 100 Years’ War War between England and France Use of new weapons
The war lasted 116 years
Mainly small raids
Use of new weapons
Long Bow- could fire fast and up to 200 yards.
England
House of commons would gain more power as a result of the war

12. Great Schism Church was divided into 2 and sometimes 3 parts 1377-1417
Each Pope would gain political support from different leaders
Church Council would meet in 1414 to end the Schism.
Removed two of the Popes and one resigned
Elected a new Pope

13. Agenda Talk about Friday Bell work put in notes
Talk about Black Death video
Crusades Handout
Crusades Map: Label all countries, cities, and the different crusades. Create a key. Use page 127 from your book to complete the map.

14. Bell Work Answer Essential Questions
Section 1
Section 2
Sections 3-6.
Use your book to answer the following questions on your review.
Who was John Wycliffe and what did he do?
Who was Jan Hus and what did he do?