6.4 Citie fight for freedom

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Paragrapgh 6.4 - Cities fight for freedom

City rights 

Read TB p. 138 

What were the advantages of city rights for the people of the city?

1. They could get more money out of the lord
2. They could pay for their own events, like a celebration for the Virgin Mary
3. They could organise their own markets or build city walls
4. They could pay for their own armies

What were the advantages of city rights for the landlords?

1. They had a wealthy city that could pay a lot of taxes
2. More rights meant more wealth and therefor more taxes

What is a privilege?

1. Mrs. Den Boer's teacher chair
2. Your student chairs
3. The open windows during winter
4. The posters on the wall of the classroom

What would you prefer?

A privilege from the landlord, because...

A city charter from the landlord, because...

A city could be considered a third power in the medieval society besides the king and landlord. Why?

1. Both the king and the vassel could claim the loyalty of the city
2. The city could start an independent state
3. Whoever had the support of the cities could raise a larger army

After the year 1000, cities had grown and more people started to move from the countryside to towns and cities. What is the name of this process?

Put in the correct order

Cities receive city rights

The three-field system is introduced

Cities become more powerful than their landlords

Marketplaces grow to become cities 

Food surpluses are exhanged

Kidnap the count!

Peasants are mad!

Landlords were mad!

Count Floris of Holland

• Read TB p. 139 
• Make exercise 6 

Open your workbooks!

Let's make exercise 8 together (IMPORTANT!)

Citypower!

Read 'Self-governance of cities' and 'City People'

Who would appoint the schepenen?

1. The people living within the city
2. The landlord
3. The king or count

A schepen is...

1. someone who possessed land in the city
2. someone appointed by the landlord to live in the city

What did a schepen do?

1. Crime fighter, policeman, taxcollector and defence organisor
2. Governing the city by making laws and upholding them
3. Set up policy for the guilds, collect taxes to pay the cityservants

What is a schout?

1. Like a scout with football, scouting for governing talent
2. The highest function with the schepenen
3. Head of the policy force within the city

Who were in the city council?

1. The schepenen and the schout
2. The rich citizens
3. The rich citizens and the schout
4. The schepenen, the schout and the rich citizens

Who governed the city?

1. The schepenen and the schout
2. The rich citizens
3. The rich citizens and the schout
4. The schepenen, the schout and the rich citizens

People in city were...

1. free
2. bound to the landlord

Serfs fled from the city to the manors

1. True
2. False

If you stayed in the city for a year and a day, you would become a burgher of the city

1. True
2. False

Common workers and beggars

Merchants and masters of the guilds

Middle class of craftsman shopkeepers 

Make exercise 10 

Divide class in the amount of teachers we have

Teachers lead discussion on Question 12 

Ranking

Which is the most important to people in the Medieval cities according to you and why? 

1. The right to make laws for people who lived in the city.
   
2. The right to charge tolls for outsiders who wanted to stay in the city.
   
3. The right to mint own coins.
   
4. Exemption from military service.
   
5. The right to build a defence wall around the city.
   
6. The right to hold markets and receive income from them.