assessment 1: black death

Question 1

what religion was common in medieval britain?

Answer 1

christian

Question 2

who held the most power in medieval society?

Answer 2

the king

Question 3

what was an unhelpful medical theory in the middle ages?

Answer 3

miasma and the 4 humours

Question 4

when did the medieval period begin?

Answer 4

1250

Question 5

when did the medieval period end?

Answer 5

1500

Question 6

why were cesspits a risk to health in the medieval countryside?

Answer 6

they weren’t clean

Question 7

why were drovers a risk to health in medieval towns?

Answer 7

bringing animals in who brought disease

Question 8

what job did gongfermers do?

Answer 8

cleaned and removed human waste

Question 9

what did rakers do?

Answer 9

clean the streets

Question 10

what % of the population were killed by the black death?

Answer 10

60%

Question 11

what caused the black death?

Answer 11

bacteria called yersinia pestis

Question 12

what was a medieval belief and the cause of black death?

Answer 12

punishment from god or looking into the eyes of the ill

Question 13

what was an unhelpful cure for the black death?

Answer 13

praying for the ill and burning candles

Question 14

what was king edwards response to the black death?

Answer 14

he wrote to the mayor of london ordering him to clean the streets

Question 15

what diseases were prevalent in medieval britain?

Answer 15

plague
dysentery
influenza
childbed fever
tuberculosis

Question 16

who was responsible for the public health in towns?

Answer 16

mayor / alderman

Question 17

what did london do to improve public health after the black death

Answer 17

closed all bath houses and installed new pipes

Question 18

what did the monasteries do to improve public health in the middles ages?

Answer 18

built conduits over the cities clean water and sheltered the poor

Question 19

why did monasteries need clean water?

Answer 19

for mass

Question 20

what year was the plague year?

Answer 20

1417

Question 21

what year did the black death hit england?

Answer 21

1348

Question 22

how did people believe the black death spread?

Answer 22

movement of planets
earthquakes
miasma
4 humours
looking people in the eye

Question 23

why didn’t people have hot baths?

Answer 23

they believed they caused illness

Question 24

why was it an issue to let towns make their own approach to improving public health?

Answer 24

some couldn’t afford to do a lot so they didn’t bother

Question 25

why wasn’t Shrewsbury successful with their attempts to pave paths and build roads?

Answer 25

they kept getting ruined by constant attacks by scottish raiders

Question 26

how affective would the bylaws be at making people in bristol healthier?

Answer 26

no infected people and no dungheaps

Question 27

how was public health before the black death?

Answer 27

public health was still very poor because nobody knew about illness

Question 28

how fast did the plague spread?

Answer 28

500 million people in 500 days

Question 29

how many people died?

Answer 29

3.5 million

Question 30

why did churches stop offering individual funerals?

Answer 30

because they were too under pressure by how many people were dying

Question 31

what could the king have done to prevent the spread of plague in towns?

Answer 31

he should’ve forced towns to make a difference in the public health

Question 32

why did people think god caused the plague?

Answer 32

because they were very religious

Question 33

why did people blame so many things for the cause of the black death rather than public health?

Answer 33

because people didn’t understand the cause of disease or where it came from

Question 34

why did disease last so long?

Answer 34

because they had no treatments for it

Question 35

what is the first symptoms of the plague?

Answer 35

swelling in the arm pits and buboes