Select all that apply. Which of these help to explain where medieval towns grew up?
Wherever kings ordered large numbers of people to move and settle
At points where trade routes crossed one another✓الإجابة الصحيحة
At river crossings where travellers had to pass✓الإجابة الصحيحة
Beside castles, monasteries and sheltered harbours✓الإجابة الصحيحة
In places chosen because they already held tens of thousands of people
الشرح
Towns formed where people and goods had to stop, pay or change direction, which is why junctions, fording points and the shelter of a stronghold, a religious house or a harbour drew settlement to them. The royal-order picture fails because population followed traffic and safety, and most medieval towns were small places that grew over time rather than communities moved by command.