Across
- 5. gold coin famous for value
- 6. new social class
- 7. one quarter of the entire population of Europe
- 11. had to be presented to a board of guild masters
- 13. carriers of the plague
- 14. modern equivalent of the letters of credit
- 15. marketplace of Northern Europe
- 17. fair amount that considers cost of materials and profit
- 19. regulated trade in a given town
Down
- 1. greatest of Italian trade cities
- 2. lasted 116 years
- 3. could pierce French armor front and back
- 4. heard voices in her head
- 8. granted to a town by a feudal lord
- 9. first type of guild
- 10. "bench"
- 12. not paid but given the chance to learn a trade
- 16. "men of the town" in Germany
- 18. rose up as a result of more freemen and decline of feudalism