Medieval Britain

Question 1

One feature of religion in medieval Britain

Answer 1

It was a christain country

Question 2

Who held the most power in medieval society

Answer 2

King/monarch

Question 3

Name an unhelpful medical theory in the Middle Ages

Answer 3

Four humour theory

Question 4

When does the medieval period begin and end

Answer 4

1250,1500

Question 5

Give one feature of homes in the country side during Middle Ages

Answer 5

Wattle and daub

Question 6

Give one feature of a medieval peasants diet

Answer 6

Vegetable

Question 7

Why were cesspits a risk to health in the medical countryside

Answer 7

Go through water source spreading disease

Question 8

What did medieval peasants drink

Answer 8

Water,beer

Question 9

Give one feature of homes in medieval towns

Answer 9

Thatched rooves

Question 10

How did people who lived in medieval towns get their food

Answer 10

Markets,drovers

Question 11

Why were drovers a risk to health in medical town

Answer 11

Brought live stock through towns spreading disease

Question 12

One way in which people in medieval towns got water

Answer 12

Water carrier conducts built by the monasteries

Question 13

What job did gongfermers do

Answer 13

Remove human waste from the streets and from cesspits

Question 14

What job did rakers do

Answer 14

Clean the streets

Question 15

What year did the Black Death hit England

Answer 15

1348

Question 16

What % of the population were killed by the Black Death

Answer 16

60%

Question 17

What actually causes the Black Death

Answer 17

Yersinia pestis spread by fleas living off rats

Question 18

Give one medieval belief about the causes of the black death

Answer 18

Punishment from god /looking into someone eyes could spread the disease

Question 19

One unhelpful cure of the black death

Answer 19

Blood letting

Question 20

Describe king edwards 111’s response to the Black Death

Answer 20

Wrote a letter

Question 21

Give one reason why monasteries needed clean water

Answer 21

For mass

Question 22

How did the monarchy improve public health in the Middle Ages

Answer 22

Built conduits over the city so they had clean water

Question 23

Name two people responsible for public health in towns

Answer 23

Mayor ,alderman

Question 24

Name one way London tried to improve public health after the Black Death

Answer 24

Closed bath houses and got new pipe

Question 25

Three diseases that were prevalent in the medieval Britain

Answer 25

Dysentery
Influenza
Childbed fever

Question 26

Pottage

Answer 26

A vegetable stew

Question 27

Parish

Answer 27

Small are with its own church

Question 28

Midden

Answer 28

A pit for collecting waste

Question 29

Conduit

Answer 29

A stone channel for transporting water

Question 30

Pathogen

Answer 30

Bacteria causing disease

Question 31

Name one action that was taken to prevent the spread of the Black Death

Answer 31

Flagellants whipped themselves in the streets to prove to god that they were sorry for their sins

Question 32

Did anyone know what caused it

Answer 32

No they didn’t know at the time instead they thought it was off miasma and the movements of the planets