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1
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Name a feature of medieval towns

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Thatched roofs
Tightly packed houses

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Name a feature of a medieval village

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Thatched roofs
Midden

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Name a theory about the Black Death

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Miasma(bad air)
4humours
Caused by sin

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What was a midden

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A pile of rubbish in the back of homes

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What is a privy

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A medieval toilet

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What is a raker

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Someone who was paid to clean the streets

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What is a gongfermer

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

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What is a water carrier

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

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9
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What is a conduit

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A fountain

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What did the monasteries do to help the Black Death

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

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11
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What did people drink

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Small beer with a few drinking water

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12
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I hate was mainly in the peasants diet

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Fruit and veg

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13
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What was in the monarchs diet

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Meat

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14
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What a reason the black plague spread so fast

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

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What did the kind do to help the Black Death

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

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What did butchers do to improve public health

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Start a guild where all meet would have to be examined

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What is a drover

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Someone who would transport animals into and out of the towns

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18
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Where were animals kept in winter in medieval villages

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Inside the house

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19
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What could be found in the thatched roofs

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Rats flees cats and dogs

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20
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Who ran towns

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Mayor and the aldermen

21
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Who ran villages

A

Lords

22
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Who had the most power

A

Kings and the church

23
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Why did monasteries build conduits

A

For mass

24
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What was the name of the king on the throne during the Black Death

A

Edward

25
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What did London do to help the Black Death

A

Build a tunnel for the butchers to get rid of waste

26
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Name the 3 ways people could catch the Black Death

A

Blood cough

27
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Why did the Black Death spread so quickly

A

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

28
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Why did the north have no improvements in public health

A

Scottish invading

29
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Why did they not know much about the Black Death

A

The church had to improve all medical discoveries

30
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Why was sickness not rare in the medieval era

A

Raw food being served

31
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What diseases were about in the medieval era

A

Tuberculosis child bed fever The Black Death Disentery

32
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What is tuberculosis

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

33
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What is child bed fever

A

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

34
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What is disentery

A

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

35
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What is the Black Death

A

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

36
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How much of Englands population died from the Black Death

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60%

37
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How much of Europe died from the Black Death

A

3rd

38
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Where did the Black Death come from

A

Asia

39
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What was the main carrier of the Black Death

A

Fleas on rats

40
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What were the symptoms of the Black Death

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Boils coughing rashes feeling on fire itching delusions

41
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What were treatments for the Black Death

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Chamomile on wound. Praying. Lighting prayer candles

42
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When did the Black Death happen

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1346-1353

43
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What’ was mayors and aldermens jobs

A

To take care of towns

44
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How did the Black Death spread from Asia

A

Trading routes such as Silk Roads

45
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Where did people in towns get their food from

A

Weekly market

46
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Where did people in villages get their food

A

They grew it themselves

47
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What would happen to the animal carcasses after they were used

A

Left on the street for drovers/rakers

48
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What did London also do to stop spread

A

Moved prostitutes drovers outside of city walls

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