Medieval and modern times : an introduction to the history of western Europe form the dissolution of the Roman empire to the present time . lowed to work only for master workmen and not directly forthe public. A simple trade might be learned in three years, butto .become a goldsmith one must be an apprentice for ten number of apprentices that a master workman might em-ploy was strictly limited, in order that the joume)niien mightnot become too numerous. The way in which each trade was to be practiced was care-fully regulated, as well as the time that should be spent in workeach day.
Medieval and modern times : an introduction to the history of western Europe form the dissolution of the Roman empire to the present time . lowed to work only for master workmen and not directly forthe public. A simple trade might be learned in three years, butto .become a goldsmith one must be an apprentice for ten number of apprentices that a master workman might em-ploy was strictly limited, in order that the joume)niien mightnot become too numerous. The way in which each trade was to be practiced was care-fully regulated, as well as the time that should be spent in workeach day. The system of guilds discouraged enterprise but main-tained uniform standards everywhere. Had it not been forthese unions, the defenseless, isolated workmen, serfs as theyhad formerly been, would have found it impossible to securefreedom and municipal independence from the feudal lordswho had formerly been their masters. Business in the Later Middle Ages 43. The chief reason for the growth of the towns and their in-creasing prosperity was a great development of trade throughoutwestern Europe. Commerce had pretty much disappeared with. COMMERCIAL, TOWNSAND TRADE ROUTES of the 13th and 14th CenturieH Land Koutea (Tcnctian ^- ,_,^^ Wfiter Routes J^ 4.^4,+^ 0 100 200 :iOQ ?JW TiW COO Longitude Eoat » (
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