FARMING AND INDUSTRY MIDDLE AGES.

Why might town life seem attractive to a farm in medieval time?

• It offered freedom and oportunities

• It offered to work the land

• It offered best markets

What advances in farming broght about increased food supplies?

• Silver plows, more harvest, fermented food.

• Iron plows, horse shoes, harnesses, crop rotation.

• Oxes working the land, the three filed system.

What was the three field system?

• A crop rotation.

• Changing the fields every two years

• Working land

What were the main function of the guilds?

• To protect workers, regulated quality of goods, set prices.

• To work the land and ask for the taxes.

• To controll where goods were sold.

In what ways did the Cisternians epand farming?

• They encouraged sheep farming

• Cutting forest and draining swamps

• They brought new land under cultivation

• All above.

Which medieval region was known for fine woolen cloth?

• England

• Brussels

• Flanders

What goods were trade in the high middle ages?

• Textiles and clothes, horses, iron plows.

• Textiles and clothes, weapons, jewerly spices and crops.

• Silk, spices and weapons.

How did trade help expand towns?

• The crusade invaded them.

• Peasans strted to use the iron plow.

• People move there to produce and tarde goods.