Houses

Question 1

what did most peasants live in?

Answer 1

one room huts with walls insulated in wattle and daub

Question 2

what was wattle and daub?

Answer 2

making walls out of sticks and then covering in sticky mud made of clay, sand, animal dung and straw

Question 3

what happened to badly ventilated houses?

Answer 3

easily fill with smoke

Question 4

what did most houses have for cooking?

Answer 4

open hearth or fire

Question 5

where did farm animals shelter?

Answer 5

in houses

Question 6

who did the streams provide for?

Answer 6

humans and their animals

Question 7

what did humans and animals do in the streams?

Answer 7

bathe and drink

Question 8

what is small beer?

Answer 8

a tiny amount of alcohol drank by peasants instead of water because it was unsafe

Question 9

when was the great famine?

Answer 9

1315

Question 10

what caused famines?

Answer 10

bad weather or diseases killing the cattle

Question 11

what is pottage?

Answer 11

a stew made from vegetables

Question 12

what caused ergotism?

Answer 12

fungus caused by damp conditions on rye

Question 13

what did victims of ergotism suffer with?

Answer 13

painful pus spots, burning and hallucinations

Question 14

what was discovered in 1670s about ergotism?

Answer 14

rich people did not get it because their bread was made of wheat not rye

Question 15

how was meat preserved?

Answer 15

smoking it , hang above the fire

Question 16

what made the cesspit waste valuable?

Answer 16

it fertilised fields

Question 17

what did waste from cesspits contaminate?

Answer 17

water in the streams that would be drank