Medieval

Question 1

What was the influence of ancient ideas on medicine?

Answer 1

The 4 humours
Blamed God

Question 2

Who set standards in trade?

Answer 2

Guilds

Question 3

What did peasants eat?

Answer 3

Vegetables, pottage
Relied on a good harvest

Question 4

How did peasants live?

Answer 4

In smokey houses with their animals inside

Question 5

Where did peasants put their waste?

Answer 5

In middens or cesspits
Towns might have had public toilets

Question 6

What were towns like?

Answer 6

Streets were crowded and uncobbled

Question 7

Where did water come from?

Answer 7

Conduits
Water sellers

Question 8

What did rakers do?

Answer 8

From 1293 they were paid to clear streets and dispose of waste

Question 9

How did people look after the town’s waste?

Answer 9

Had to keep their gutter clean
Waste could only be left outside for 4 days before receiving a fine

Question 10

What year did the Black Death reach England?

Answer 10

1348

Question 11

Name the three types of Plague

Answer 11

Bubonic
Septicemic
Pneumonic

Question 12

Name the ways Plague was spread

Answer 12

Flea bites
Breathing in germs

Question 13

What herbal remedies were used to treat Black Death

Answer 13

Camomile lotion
Had no effect

Question 14

How was the 4 humours used to treat Black Death

Answer 14

Bloodletting

Question 15

Why did the Church need clean water?

Answer 15

To perform mass
For the sick people staying in the monasteries

Question 16

Who were flagellants?

Answer 16

People who whipped themselves to try and prevent the spread of Black Death

Question 17

How do we know people believed in Miasma?

Answer 17

People carried around nice-smelling flowers

Question 18

What was the National response to Black Death?

Answer 18

Kind Edward III ordered the streets of London to be cleared of filth

Question 19

When did King Edward III order the cleaning of London?

Answer 19

1349

Question 20

How effective was the national response compared to other countries?

Answer 20

Weak
Italy were much better

Question 21

What did the Butcher’s Guilds do in 1329 to improve health?

Answer 21

Set standards so meat was of good quality

Question 22

How did conditions in London improve from 1230?

Answer 22

Provided piped Springwater
However, growing population meant it couldn’t cope

Question 23

When was the Great Famine?

Answer 23

1315-16

Question 24

When did the gongfermers set up their own guild?

Answer 24

1479

Question 25

When were Gongfermers employed to clean streets ?

Answer 25

1302