Step 2

Use these resources to answer the questions below. Record your information on *Sheet 1*.

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Resources

• Exploration – Old World Trade
  • Gold & Salt trade route
  • The Silk Road
  • The spice trade route
• Houses during the middle ages
• Inside the Town
• Rats, fleas and disease
• Town Streets
• Traders and Fairs
• Work in the Middle Ages (answers question 1: read the section peasant jobs in the middle ages)

Questions

1. You are a tailor. What other possible crafts/trades could you have trained in?
2. Where were you likely to work?
3. What were the streets like during this time?
4. What was your home like during this time?
5. Was it easy to keep your home and yourself clean?
6. As a tailor, your job involved visiting fairs. What did you go there to buy?
7. Who would you buy these items from?
8. Where do you think these items originally came from?

When you have finished your notes you will need to download *Sheet 2* to take to your group discussion.