City in the Middle Ages – history simply explained
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In the Middle Ages, Germany experienced an urban revolution: almost 2000 towns, most of them small towns, were created in just 250 years. They were founded by princes and bishops or grew around trading centers. Many of our towns were founded on a river: at a river crossing, a ford, such as FrankFURT or ErFURT, or at a bridge such as InnsBRUCK. Rivers play an important role in the development of many towns. Traders still use them as transport routes today. They serve as sources of energy and for irrigation of agriculture. Some towns in the Middle Ages were granted a special privilege: the staple right. This required merchants passing through to offer their goods to traders in the respective town for three days - at a good price. The staple right helped towns like Cologne, Hamburg or Rostock to gain power and wealth. In the Middle Ages, they were among the largest and most important trading metropolises. Frankfurt's rise to a trading center in the Middle Ages began with the trade fairs that were held on the banks of the Main in the Middle Ages. The emperor granted the people of Frankfurt two trade fairs a year - a special right that only very few towns received in the Middle Ages. The city on the Main becomes the Germans' department store. The cities' wealth is protected from external enemies with city walls. You can find out everything else you need to know about cities in the Middle Ages in our video about the city in the Middle Ages. #TerraXstattSchule #MrWissen2Go #Mittelalter The video "City in the Middle Ages" is from the series "Moments of History", broadcast on January 1st, 2016: https://www.zdf.de/dokumentation/mome... You can also find further episodes of the series "Moments of History" here: https://www.zdf.de/dokumentation/mome... Subscribe? Just click here - / @terraxplus Terra X instead of school in the ZDFmediathek - https://kurz.zdf.de/schuletx/#xtor=CS... Terra X on Facebook - / zdfterrax Terra X on Instagram - / terrax
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