Medieval Synthesis
During the Medieval Period, class structure was highly important. The king was of first importance followed by knights and tradesmen were towards the bottom. However, some tradesmen became highly wealthy due to their special skills or because they were merchants who traded goods. As trade routes developed, merchants started to trade to bigger cities like Paris. The wealth of some merchants was obvious in the way their houses were decorated. Some had castle-like homes with elaborated painted woodwork. They were constructed from luxurious Roman glass and were extremely ornate. The way in which the houses were built are in a sense an art form.
In your synthesis question, you do a great job of explaining how the hierarchy of the class system in the Medieval Period. It is true that the king was of utmost importance and stayed at the top of the class system with tradesmen remaining members of the lower class. You also provided great evidence to support the idea that merchants became more wealthy as time went on (i.e. your example that some merchants had castle-like homes with elaborately-painted woodwork). However, maybe there should be a bit of sentence rearrangement with your final sentence, because you already are finished talking about the art forms of the architecture in the Medieval Period. Overall, you did a good job describing the difference of wealth between tradespeople. A small suggestion would be the inclusion of the types of special skills the tradesmen had, as you mentioned in an earlier sentence, as well as the areas that tradesmen would trade to, just to provide a bit of background. But the entire piece was done with great grammar and sentence structure and had great evidence about the wealth of tradesmen. Good job!
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