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Urban Life Flourishes, Merchant Class Shifts the Social Order - Coggle…

- - - - Streets were narrow, filled with animals and their waste
        
        With no sewers, most people dumped household and human wasste into the street in front of the house
        
        Most people never bathed, and their house lacked fresh air, light and clean water
        
        Most people chose to move to towns to pursue the economic and social oppertunities they offered
        
        Why did the serfs run away?
        
        Serfs were often harshly treated and had little legal redress against the actions of their lords
        
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- - - - Typical town in medieval Europe had 1500 to 2500 people
      - These small communities became a powerful force
        
        What could you see as a huge benefit of having lots of tiny towns?
- - - - What did they use their authority for?
      - Freedom
        
        Time
      - they would fight their landlords and win the rights by force