black death/ medieval britain

Question 1

when did the black death start?

Answer 1

1348

Question 2

When did the medieval period start?

Answer 2

1250

Question 3

when did the medieval period end?

Answer 3

1500

Question 4

what were the three types of black death?

Answer 4

pneumonic, bubonic, septicemic

Question 5

what did london do in 1478 to help with public health?

Answer 5

Expelled tawyers (animal skinners) who dumped animal waste onto the streets or into the thames

Question 6

how were latrines unhelpful

Answer 6

some houses had to share a latrine

Question 7

how was trade routes unhelpful

Answer 7

they helped the disease spread further

Question 8

what made the symptoms of the black death more dramatic

Answer 8

malnutrition

Question 9

where did the disease originate

Answer 9

Gobi desert, mongolia

Question 10

what were symptoms of the septicemic plague

Answer 10

internal bleeding
fingers,toes and nose turn black

Question 11

what were symptoms of the pneumonic plague

Answer 11

violently, coughing up blood, death within two days

Question 12

what were the symptoms of the bubonic plague

Answer 12

painful swellings (buboes) in armpit and groin
intense fever, blisters

Question 13

what caused septicemic plague

Answer 13

infection reaching the bloodstream

Question 14

what caused the pneumonic plague

Answer 14

breathing in cough droplets from the infected

Question 15

what caused the bubonic plague

Answer 15

flea bites

Question 16

how long would it take for people to die from the black death

Answer 16

3-7 days

Question 17

what attitude did king Edward the third have towards the black death

Answer 17

Laissez-faire

Question 18

what did people do to avoid miasma

Answer 18

would carry round herbs and flowers

Question 19

what was miasma

Answer 19

the belief that bad air caused disease

Question 20

why were streets so unhygienic

Answer 20

butchers and tawyers would leave animal carcasses and organs etc on the street and it would attract rats

Question 21

why did the black death spread quickly in the countryside

Answer 21

rats lived in the thatched roofs of houses so were in close enough proximity to spread disease to a human host

Question 22

what did people do to avoid catching the black death

Answer 22

ran away from their villages to places like the countryside

Question 23

give one science and technology reason why the black death spread so quickly

Answer 23

microscopes hadnt been invented yet and because germs are microscopic people didnt know they were causing the disease

Question 24

name the three types of plague

Answer 24

bubonic, pneumonic, septiceamic

Question 25

what did gongfermers do

Answer 25

cleaned out latrines and cesspits

Question 26

what did rakers do

Answer 26

cleaned up the streets