Economic Recovery Sparks
Change
Chapter 7 Section 4
Pages 45-50
Read Pages 45-47
1. Why did agricultural production improve?
2. Why would improved farming lead to population growth?
3. What is a charter? What advantage did a charter give
townspeople over people who lived in villages attached to
manors?
4. How and why did medieval towns and cities grow?
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Read Pages 48-49
5. How did trade practices (partnerships, insurance, credit, and
bills of exchange) lessen risk for the merchant or
businessperson?
6. How did these practices lead to changes in society?
7. How did guilds affect the growth and increased political
power of towns?
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8. Why were towns good for trade?
9. What were medieval cities like?
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