1. Chapter 14: The High Middle Ages Section 3: The Growth of Towns (327-330)

2. Trade increased Towns grew larger & richer

3. Sole right to trade in their town Helped their members and the members families in time of trouble

4. Association of skilled workers that set standards for working conditions

5. Members from a single craft Shoemaking Controlled training of skilled workers

6. A person who learns a skill under a master

7. Skilled worker who was paid wages by a master

8. Complete Masterpiece Open own shop

9. Terrible plague that swept through Europe starting in 1347 Waste dumped into open gutters

10. Began in Asia and spread through trade routes Black Rats on ships carried disease

11. 25 million died between 1347-1351 Faith in God shaken Church lost power and importance