Name: _Emarah Davis__________________________________ Block: ____4__ Date: __4/26/14_____________________

Global 9
Lesson 4.6: Economic Expansion during the High Middle Ages
TB 2005 Chapter 8, Section 4
TB 2009 Chapter 7, Section 4

HOMEWORK DUE: _______________________________________
I. Quiz on economic expansion during the High Middle Ages, for which you should study:
A. The pages in the textbook
B. Class worksheets
C. The vocabulary that follows
II. Vocabulary: You must complete the definition of the term as found in the textbook AND formulate a sentence in
which you use the term related to our lesson.
A. charter
1. Definition: in the Middle Ages, a written document that set out the rights & privileges of a town.


2. Sentence:

B. capital
1. Definition: money or wealthy.

2. Sentence:

C. partnership
1. Definition: group of merchants who joined together to finance a large-scale venture that would have been too
costly for any individual trader.


2. Sentence:

D. bill of exchange
1. Definition: issued by a banker in one city to a merchant who could exchange it for cash in a distant city, thus
freeing him from traveling with gold, which was easily stolen.


2. Sentence:

E. Tenant farmer
1. Definition: someone who would pay rent to a lord in order to farm the land.


2. Sentence:

F. middle class
1. Definition: new class of people, including merchants, traders, and artisans- who stood between peasants and
nobles.

2. Sentence:

G. usury
1. Definition: practice of lending money with interest.


2. Sentence:

H. guild
1. Definition: in the middle ages, association of merchants or artisans whom cooperated to protect their
economic interests.

2. Sentence:

I. apprentice
1. Definition: young person learning a trade from a master.


2. Sentence:

J. journeyman
1. Definition: salaried worker who was employed by a guild master.


2. Sentence: