WORLD HISTORY

HISTORY

MEDIEVAL CHRISTIAN EUROPE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which group dominated the economic and political lives of towns during the Middle Ages?
A
Farmers
B
Guilds
C
Knights
D
the Clergy
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Answer and Explanation: The economic and political life of medieval towns was usually dominated by the guild structures. Guilds were companies of merchants, like jewelers or tailors, who banded together to set rates for their work, limit competition, and train the next generation of skilled workers.

Detailed explanation-2: -Manorial system or seignorial system, was the economic and social system of medieval Europe under which peasants’ land tenure and production were regulated, and local justice and taxation were administered. Feudalism and manorialism were the predominant landholding systems in most parts of medieval Europe.

Detailed explanation-3: -During the height of the feudal age there were three main social classes: the clergy – church officials, the nobles – the wealthy, and the peasants – poor farmers and workers.

Detailed explanation-4: -The middle class included everyone who was a merchant, a doctor, a university graduate, or in the middle management of the Church. These were the people who really saved Europe from the Middle Ages, and their size and importance grew as the period went on.

Detailed explanation-5: -feudalism, also called feudal system or feudality, French féodalité, historiographic construct designating the social, economic, and political conditions in western Europe during the early Middle Ages, the long stretch of time between the 5th and 12th centuries.

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