Country history medieval Flashcards
1
Q
Wattle and daub
A
Sticks, mud and clay to make walls in huts
2
Q
Peasants diets
A
Healthy diet of vegetables, milk , cheese , fish and pottage
3
Q
Cesspits
A
Most houses had one for human excrement
4
Q
What did people drink
A
They drank alcohol instead of fresh water
5
Q
Famine
A
Extreme scarcity of food
6
Q
Contaminated
A
Being made unpure by exposure to polluting substance
7
Q
Conduit
A
A fountain for all to use
8
Q
Harvest
A
The process of period of gathering in crops
9
Q
Midden
A
A dung hill or refuse heap
10
Q
Pottage
A
Meat and veg stew
11
Q
Safe drinking
A
Small beer was safer than water
12
Q
Where would farm animals live ?
A
At night they would shelter inside the house as they were too valuable to lose
