Towns & Trade
Your child can say how medieval towns grew and differed from villages, with markets and walls. They know a guild was a group that ran a trade and its rules.
In curriculum terms
The growth of medieval towns: markets, guilds, the merchant class; how towns won charters of self-governance; the shift from purely rural to partly urban life
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Could your child explain why medieval towns grew and how the rise of markets and guilds changed the way people lived and worked?
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Curriculum alignment
Where this fits in the official school curriculum — our best automated guess, not yet checked by a person.
This skill sits outside the F–6 Australian Curriculum — no candidate code matched (v0.1). No NSW K–6 outcome code matched (v0.1). No Victorian Curriculum 2.0 code matched (v0.1).