Historical craft guilds

About this model

Medieval European craft guilds, 12th to 16th century. Guilds capped how many masters a trade could hold and fixed prices, so apprentices rose through a bottleneck while the market absorbed a controlled supply of goods. A teaching model: it keeps only this core loop and leaves out everything else a real economy has.

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It was created in October 2026 and last edited in November 2026.

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