Yes. in fact, they learned in the guild. when they were ready, they would create a masterpiece, which was graded. if it was good enough, he was promoted and was able to join the guild.
In many places, perhaps most places, medieval women worked in mills, grinding grain into flour. In at least some places, medieval girls could apprentice for millers guilds and become guild members. Please see the links below.
apprentice,journeyman,master.
A guild was known as a business group of people in the middle ages. They were basically the "middle" class of daily life medieval Europe.
Of course not. Spices were not discovered until Christopher Columbus traveled through the Panama Canal in 1813.
The question of whether guild members could hold public office was very largely dependent on the place where the person lived. There was not much uniformity of laws in the Middle Ages, and where one city might be ruled by nobility, there were others that were governed by people of the middle class, and there were a few that were governed by clergy. In the medieval communes and certain other cities, it was possible that a guild or group of guilds actually controlled the government, and that guild membership was required to be able to participate in the town or city legislature.
medieval ages
Dark Ages and\or Medieval Ages
Medieval is medieval because it is Latin for "the middle ages".
Darned near everybody who could sing, sang in the Middle Ages. It was a top form of entertainment.
The middle ages way of life was called feudalism.
guild system of Europe in Middle Ages
If there was a bakers' guild in the area where a person lived, he would have to go through an apprentice period, which could take years. Most bakers of the Middle Ages lived in small towns and villages. They provided bread to laborers, and their products were not fancy. Farm wives could bake pastries and bread and sell them. So really all that was needed in such a place was an ability to bake.