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CLSM · World History · Progress Check 2
Medieval Rights & Town Life
Read the situation. Connect the ideas. Show how you know.
Name ___________________________Class __________ Date __________
01 Recall, then make a connection.
Charter
Status
Enforcement
How could a charter grant protections that depend on status? Explain why enforcement matters when evaluating whether a written promise changed people’s lives.
Read the situation.
Medieval Europe contained varied kingdoms, towns, estates, religious institutions, and obligations. A simplified “feudal pyramid” cannot capture every place or century. People held different rights and duties depending on status and local institutions. Kings exercised authority, but they also negotiated with nobles, towns, and religious leaders.
02 Organize the information.
Test the charter
A historian wants to know whether a promised hearing changed treatment of residents.
Order the research steps.
Find cases before and after the agreement.
Compare treatment using similar cases and note differences in status.
State a supported conclusion and what records are missing.
Identify the hearing clause and whom it covered.
Write the letters in order:
→→→
Explain why one step or event belongs where you put it.
CLSM · World History · Progress Check 2
What does the evidence show?
Medieval Rights & Town Life
03 Follow the evidence.
Who is missing?
The fictional charter is negotiated only by landholding nobles and town merchants. A display claims it records every resident’s priorities.
Select all evidence that would challenge that claim.
The negotiation record names only nobles and merchants as participants.
A laborer’s petition describes a concern absent from the charter.
A clause specifies the town market’s opening hours.
The king’s seal appears on the document.
Name the useful records and explain how they answer the claim.
04 Apply the idea.
The final judgment
One later case enforces a charter protection, while another denies it to a person outside the covered group.
Which conclusion fits?
The protection mattered in one documented case but remained limited in scope.
The first case proves equal rights for everyone.
The second case proves the charter never affected anyone.
Choose a conclusion and explain why it fits the situation.
05 Carry the idea forward.
Write a town-history note explaining how a charter could change authority while leaving inequalities in place. Use one rule, one enforcement example, and one missing perspective.