4.1 Cities and trade return - Q -

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AGE 4: The Time of cities and states

4.1 Cities and trade return

Practise Questions

1. Which cause do you consider most important for
urbanisation to take place?

2. The growth in population caused people to move to the cities. Why did they not stay in the countryside?

3. Most cities were established near a river. There are several reasons for this. Together with a partner, try to identify as many as possible.

4. In cities, most people specialised in a craft.
Did they also have to keep their own land and cattle?
Explain your answer.

5. In one of the previous chapters you also learned that a surplus of food led to specialisation.
Which region did this first happen?

1. Egypt
2. Mesopotamia
3. Greece
4. Rome

6. When craftsmen joined together to form a guild, this had advantages for both the craftsmen and their customers.
a. What were the (3) advantages for craftsmen of joining a guild?

6b. How did people who used the goods and services of craftsmen also profit from the establishment of guilds?

7. What kind of craft did the man in source 4.1.6?


He made:

1. purses
2. shoes
3. hats
4. belts

8. Cloths is not the same as clothes. Look up the difference and explain it here.

9. In this exercise you will practise the skill 8: "Drawing conclusions from studying
sources".
Read the source about an agreement between Hamburg and Lübeck made in 1255.

a. Explain in your own words what was agreed between the
cities of Lübeck and Hamburg. Begin your answer with: "They agreed..."

9b. Can you give a modern example of such an agreement?

10. Use the map. Most Dutch cities that joined the Hanseatic League were located
near the Zuiderzee or near rivers connected to the Zuiderzee.

a. What is the Zuiderzee called nowadays? And why did the name change?

10b. Why were the cities near the Zuiderzee most attracted to join
the Hanseatic League?

11. Many people believed that Jews were responsible for the Black Death. What information from the text "Black Death" could have caused them to blame the Jews?

12. In a test you need to be able to draw conclusions from a source (skill 8).
The graph shows estimates of the population in
Europe between 500-1450. Use the graph to answer the
following questions:

a. Why was there a population decline between 500-650?

12b. Where did the population increase most
between 650-1000?

12c. What do you notice in the period between 1340-1450?
Can you explain this?

13a. Which one is the odd one out?

1. specialisation
2. serf
3. craft
4. guild

13b. Which one is the odd one out?

1. black death
2. surplus
3. urbanisation
4. three -field system

13c. Which one is the odd one out?

1. Bruges
2. Hanseatic League
3. Amsterdam
4. cloth

secondary sources

14. Use the sources in this lesson. Which 5 sources are secondary sources?

4.1.1

4.1.2

4.1.3

4.1.4

4.1.5

4.1.6

4.1.7

4.1.8

4.1.9

4.1.10

4.1.11

4.1.12

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