Chapter 9 History Review Flashcards
What is a barter
A barter is exchanging goods for goods
What is the practice of charging interest for the use of lent money
Usury
What is a florin
A florin is a small gold coin that was made in Florence
What is another name for the northern route to the orient
The Silk Road
Who were the people who grew in importance at the markets and trade fairs throughout Europe
Money changers
What are the three trade routes to the Orient
The southern route the central route and the northern route
What does the word banca mean
Bench
How many basic freedoms of the charter are there?
Four
What are the four basic freedoms of the charter
Free status exemption for manorial obligations town justice and commercial privileges
What is town justice
Towns people relied on themselves for their own justice in their own town if they had a charter not the manner
What is a guild
A guilds primary function was to regulate the business activity in a given town
What were the three parts of a guild
The apprentice the journeyman in the master
What is commercial obligations
Members of the town could conduct business
What is scholasticism?
Scholasticism was characterized by a renewed interest in theology and philosophy
In association such as a guild was known as what?
Universitas
What are the three parts of the trivium
Grammar logic and rhetoric
What was the legal document guaranteed towns people certain freedoms
The charter
Who were the three schoolman or scholasticism men
Anselm, Abelard, Aquinas
What are the four parts of the quad trivium
Arithmetic, geometry, music, astronomy
What were the three parts of a giuld
The apprentice, the journeyman, and the master
Which part of the guild can hire other men?
Master
Which class composed of merchants bankers and skilled laborers?
Middle class