John Donne - Sea Travel + discovery & medicine

Question 1

Age of Discovery dates

Answer 1

early 1400s to 1600s

Question 2

Outline of what was happening in the age of discovery

Answer 2

• flurry of European ships travelling world searching for new trade routes and links
• burgeoning of capitalism, national pride, growth of the empire

Question 3

What was did the age of discovery mark under E’s reign but not J’s?

Answer 3

birth and growth of Capitalism, particularly under Elizabeth I, but less so under James I as he reinforced feudalistic rule.

Question 4

Two examples of privateers

Answer 4

francis drake

walter raleigh

Question 5

Life at sea in the 16th and 17th centuries?

Answer 5

• unpredictable weather
• quality of food would deteriorate as journey went on
• no fresh food so scurvy was common
• cramped conditions, sickness, poor pay

Question 6

What happened in 1587?

Answer 6

Drake led the raid on Cadiz. The damaged they caused to the Spanish ships pushed the armada back a year. This battle was a great source of pride for Britain.

Question 7

When was the battle of Cadiz?

Answer 7

1587

Question 8

When did the English win the Spanish Armada?

Answer 8

1588

Question 9

Which colony did Raleigh establish? What was his relationship with E and J?

Answer 9

‘Virginia’ after the virgin Queen Elizabeth. He was a favorite of Elizabeth but was arrested and executed for treason by James 1

Question 10

Name a voyage of Donne and two poems that this yielded?

Answer 10

Expedition to the Azores under the leadership of the Earl of Essex supposedly influence his poems ‘the Storm’ and ‘The Calm’

Question 11

What did Donne do in 1596?

Answer 11

He joined the Earl of Essex’s expedition to Cadiz.

Question 12

What was going on with medicine in The Renaissance?

Answer 12

Scientists and doctors began to stray from traditional practices of medicine and conducting their own experiments.

This new wave of thinking was inspired by humanism which glorified unlimited human potential.

It meant people questioned the world of medicine - this was also encouraged as diseases spread and pandemics occurred.

Question 13

What did Ambroise Pare discover and what date

Answer 13

a way of cauterising and treating wounds

1536

Question 14

What did William Harvey discovery

Answer 14

concept of blood circulation

1628

Question 15

When was the printing press invented?

Answer 15

1476

Question 16

What happened as trade increased?

Answer 16

transported disease and infection causing it to rise to a global level

Question 17

Example of some herbs brought back from Middle East/Asia to Europe for medicine

Answer 17

quinine to treat malaria

Question 18

When was The Plague and what did they think it (disease in general) meant?

What did this then cause to happen?

Answer 18

1346-1353

disease came as punishment from god and it was inevitable because it was sent from a divine power

The public became more pessimistic about their relationship with god and as scientific discovery progressed a greater separation with the church was created (because more science to back stuff up so less belief in god I think??)

Question 19

Two weird treatments for illnesses!

Answer 19

• coating victim in mercury and placing them in oven

- victim to carry lucky charm such as a rabbits foot

Question 20

What were the four humours and their corresponding temperaments?

Answer 20

black bile - melancholy (analytical, deep thinkers)
yellow bile - phlegmatic (no fear of rejection)
phlegm - sanguine (social person)
blood - chloeric (goal orientated, extroverted)

Question 21

Who first introduced the idea of the four humours?

Answer 21

Hippocrates