1.  Why were most towns surrounded by thick stone walls?  Where did people throw their garbage and why?

2. Life in Medieval Towns

3.  Number of towns increase  Reasons 1.Better farming methods ▪ Means more food & more money 2.Increased Trade ▪ Most towns located near waterways

6.  Guild  An organization of people in the same craft or trade  Apprentice  A person who works for an expert in a trade or craft in return for training  Journeyman  A person who has learned a type of trade or craft but has not become a master yet

8.  Merchants gain power  What do merchants do?  More trade leads to more power  Jews:  Picked on because they were not Christians  Could not own land, if they did it was taken

9.  What do you see in the top picture?  How would you describe a marketplace to someone who has never been to one?

10.  Both  Cold, smoky, dim  Fireplaces usually only source of heat and light  Poor  One room  Maybe more than one family  Worked where they lived

11.  Hospitals invented!!  Leaching  Herbs  Trash = Diseases & Animals  Leprosy  Bubonic Plague

12.  Burned at the stake  Torture Devices  Late Middle Ages  Royal Courts  Common Law