How trade, towns and guilds grew in the Middle Ages
Grade 7 Social Studies Worksheet - Challenge Me
Circle the best answer.
In the guild chain, the guild's rules lead to two effects. What are they, Ari asks?
- Just one effect
- Prices fell to zero
- Rules ended guilds
- Goods met standards, and competing got harder
Which effect would a guild's defenders point to, Esme asks?
Use the picture in question 1.
- Newcomers found it hard to compete
- Goods met the guild's standards
- Guilds set no rules
- Towns lost their charters
What did a master give an apprentice, Jun asks?
- Daily wages
- Food, lodging and training
- A town charter
- A workshop of his own to run
How was a journeyman paid, Kira asks?
Use the picture in question 3.
- With food and lodging, no wages
- With a workshop
- With nothing
- By the day
Which step could run a workshop and take apprentices, Luz asks?
Use the picture in question 3.
- Master
- Apprentice
- Merchant at a fair
- Journeyman
Why might a guild limit the number of apprentices, Milo asks?
- To lower quality
- To keep competition down for its masters
- Because apprentices were paid daily
- To train many more new workers much faster
Why would a guild set quality rules, Noah asks?
Use the picture in question 6.
- So buyers could trust the goods
- So goods would break
- So no one would buy
- So prices had no limit
Pia's friend says guilds were good for everyone. What is the best reply?
Use the picture in question 6.
- Disagree: guilds did nothing
- Agree: rules just help
- Agree: no one criticized them
- Not quite: they helped standards but limited competition
Ren's note says, "A journeyman ran the workshop and trained apprentices." Which fix is right?
- Leave it: journeymen were masters
- Change "apprentices" to "merchants"
- Change "workshop" to "fair"
- Change "journeyman" to "master"
Tala's note says, "Guild rules had one effect: better goods." Which fix is right?
- Change "better" to "worse"
- Leave it: rules have one effect
- Change "guild" to "Hansa"
- Change it: they also made competing harder