History Medieval Medicine

Question 1

Name a feature of medieval towns

Answer 1

Thatched roofs
Tightly packed houses

Question 2

Name a feature of a medieval village

Answer 2

Thatched roofs
Midden

Question 3

Name a theory about the Black Death

Answer 3

Miasma(bad air)
4humours
Caused by sin

Question 4

What was a midden

Answer 4

A pile of rubbish in the back of homes

Question 5

What is a privy

Answer 5

A medieval toilet

Question 6

What is a raker

Answer 6

Someone who was paid to clean the streets

Question 7

What is a gongfermer

Answer 7

Someone who is paid to clean privies of the poo and give it to farmers

Question 8

What is a water carrier

Answer 8

Someone who is Paid to carry water from the conduit and sell it door to door

Question 9

What is a conduit

Answer 9

A fountain

Question 10

What did the monasteries do to help the Black Death

Answer 10

They built conduits
They cared for the sick and gave them food and water

Question 11

What did people drink

Answer 11

Small beer with a few drinking water

Question 12

I hate was mainly in the peasants diet

Answer 12

Fruit and veg

Question 13

What was in the monarchs diet

Answer 13

Meat

Question 14

What a reason the black plague spread so fast

Answer 14

Misconceptions
People would run to another village when theirs got infected unintentionally carrying the disease
Government doing basically nothing

Question 15

What did the kind do to help the Black Death

Answer 15

Basically nothing only sent a letter telling the mayor of London to clean up but never I forced it

Question 16

What did butchers do to improve public health

Answer 16

Start a guild where all meet would have to be examined

Question 17

What is a drover

Answer 17

Someone who would transport animals into and out of the towns

Question 18

Where were animals kept in winter in medieval villages

Answer 18

Inside the house

Question 19

What could be found in the thatched roofs

Answer 19

Rats flees cats and dogs

Question 20

Who ran towns

Answer 20

Mayor and the aldermen

Question 21

Who ran villages

Answer 21

Lords

Question 22

Who had the most power

Answer 22

Kings and the church

Question 23

Why did monasteries build conduits

Answer 23

For mass

Question 24

What was the name of the king on the throne during the Black Death

Answer 24

Edward

Question 25

What did London do to help the Black Death

Answer 25

Build a tunnel for the butchers to get rid of waste

Question 26

Name the 3 ways people could catch the Black Death

Answer 26

Blood cough

Question 27

Why did the Black Death spread so quickly

Answer 27

People thought you caught it by looking the sick in the eyes

Question 28

Why did the north have no improvements in public health

Answer 28

Scottish invading

Question 29

Why did they not know much about the Black Death

Answer 29

The church had to improve all medical discoveries

Question 30

Why was sickness not rare in the medieval era

Answer 30

Raw food being served

Question 31

What diseases were about in the medieval era

Answer 31

Tuberculosis child bed fever The Black Death Disentery

Question 32

What is tuberculosis

Answer 32

Tuberculosis (TB) is a bacterial infection spread through inhaling tiny droplets from the coughs or sneezes of an infected person

Question 33

What is child bed fever

Answer 33

any bacterial infections of the female reproductive tract following childbirth or miscarriage

Question 34

What is disentery

Answer 34

an infection of the intestines that causes diarrhoea containing blood or mucus

Question 35

What is the Black Death

Answer 35

bubonic plague pandemic occurring in Western Eurasia and North Africa from 1346 to 1353

Question 36

How much of Englands population died from the Black Death

Answer 36

60%

Question 37

How much of Europe died from the Black Death

Answer 37

3rd

Question 38

Where did the Black Death come from

Answer 38

Asia

Question 39

What was the main carrier of the Black Death

Answer 39

Fleas on rats

Question 40

What were the symptoms of the Black Death

Answer 40

Boils coughing rashes feeling on fire itching delusions

Question 41

What were treatments for the Black Death

Answer 41

Chamomile on wound. Praying. Lighting prayer candles

Question 42

When did the Black Death happen

Answer 42

1346-1353

Question 43

What’ was mayors and aldermens jobs

Answer 43

To take care of towns

Question 44

How did the Black Death spread from Asia

Answer 44

Trading routes such as Silk Roads

Question 45

Where did people in towns get their food from

Answer 45

Weekly market

Question 46

Where did people in villages get their food

Answer 46

They grew it themselves

Question 47

What would happen to the animal carcasses after they were used

Answer 47

Left on the street for drovers/rakers

Question 48

What did London also do to stop spread

Answer 48

Moved prostitutes drovers outside of city walls