The Spirit of the Medieval Economy?

[jdd2007]

A. Prevent competition
B. Maintain the barter system
C. Increase competition
D. Increase production

hmmm

It's definitely not B, and C just looks wrong. The answer should be D, because there was such an increase in production, but for some reason I keep thinking of the guilds which dominated trade in the later middle ages by preventing competion. Or is that too specific to be the spirit of the medieval economy?

Apolyton historians, I need your help!

[DerSchwarzfalke]

That is a pretty bad multiple choice question, imo. What "spirit" of an economy would be against increasing production? I think the answer would have to be A, just because all economies exist to increase production -- including the feudal one. The feudal economy was based on primitive autarky in the countryside, each fief attempting to be a self-contained economy, and in the towns, as you pointed out, trade was of course controlled and licensed by guilds.

[Blake]

E. Opress the Peasents!