Early Modern Flashcards
How many Londoners died from Plague 1665-66?
Between 70,000- 100,000
How did food change over this era?
Less people died from starvation due to improvements in farming
What did Thomas Newcomen invent?
The steam train in 1712
How did trade change?
Increased
Tobacco and sugar were introduced
What happened to monasteries and what was the impact of this?
Henry VIII closed them down
Nowhere for the sick to go
No longer access to clean water from monasteries
What did Hooke invent?
A powerful microscope that could see cells
What was seen in 1683?
Germs were seen through a microscope
How was the printing press important?
Ideas could be shared easily but still weren’t accepted
What did the rich eat?
Meat, bread, fish, wine
Not fruit as they thought it caused illness
What did the poor eat?
Still lots of pottage
Occasionally meat
What were houses like in towns?
Tall and thin
Damp and draughty
What were peasant’s clothes like?
Dirty and full of lice
How did people have access to water?
Rich people had it piped
Collected from conduits or water sellers
What did Hugh Middleton do?
1609 built ‘New River’ to bring piped water into London
What did rakers do?
Collected sweepings
Who developed the flushing loo?
John Harrington in 1596
He only built 2
What was a jake
A privy overhanging a river
How were cesspits emptied?
At night you could pay for people to carry the barrels out of the house
What was the highest death rate of plague?
1/3 of the population
How did Henry VIII respond to plague?
Royal proclamation in 1518
Pesthouses to be set up outside of town walls
How did Elizabeth respond to plague
1578 Plague orders
What was in the 1578 Plague orders?
Watchmen to enforce them
Money collected for victims
Isolate the infected households
What did people think caused plague?
Miasma
God
Cats and Dogs
How were plague laws made more strict in 1604?
People could be whipped
