Rise of Guilds

1.  What led to the development of trade between Europe and the Near East during the 1000s and 1100s?
They traded allot and sold many products by which they became a leading Port

2. What led to decline of Italian trading centers?
The quarrel among themselves over profits and trade routes.

3.How did fairs affect the development of banking?
Because Nobles collected taxes and sales from the fairs.

4. What effects did the "Black Death" have on Europe?
It killed about 1/3 of the Population in Europe (25 Million)

5. How did a person become a master in the guild.

First you had to be an apprentice or trainee for two to seven years (Masters told them their trade. They lived with them and had to obey them). The next step was the journeyman (he worked under the master for a daily wage). After a certain time, the journeyman had to take a test, and if he passed, than he became a master.

6.Why were nobles and church officials against the rise of towns?

In this time, Merchants got more and more and more money (sometimes more than nobles had). They could educate their sons, build Mansion and bought castles from the nobles. Their were against it, because they didn’t wanted, that they get s much power.

7. How were the ideas of townspeople different from those of the nobles and peasants.

The townspeople wanted to get in higher positions, yet were they got the money and power. The nobles were completely against it. They thought that it would be wrong to have a townsman as king or and towns son in the jury. Because of that, they wanted to stop the changes.