Countryside/Towns Flashcards
What materials were used in the average Medieval rural home?
Clay, Sand, Animal Dung, straw, wattle, daub
What are the benefits and negatives of medieval houses
Easy to heat however they had poor ventilation
What is Wattle and Daub
Wattle is making walls out of sticks and covering them in a sticky mud called daub
What did most rural medieval houses use to cook
Open hearth/open firs
Were peasants actually dumb
NO! They were actually quite smart operating their own law system
Who was at the bottom of the fuedal system?
The peasants were at the bottom of the fuedal system
Were rural houses maintained and cleaned
Houses were dirty and infested with disease but were swept so much that the floors were hollowed in
What were the water supplies in small rural villages
Condiuts from the local spring
What would people do in the streams that made it unclean?
They bathd themselves in the stream and put animal carcuses in it
What were mills powered by the stream used for
Creating textiles
What was healthier small beers or water
The brewery process killed most of the backria in the small beers making them healthier
When was The Great Famine
1315-1316
What caused The Great Famine
A particularly wet summer leading up to the harvest
What percentage of the British population died from 1315-1322 due to mostly famine
10% of the population died
Did peasants eat unhealthily
Peasants eat a relatively healthy and balanced diet of vegetables milk, fish and cheese and also pottage
