Medieval England

Question 1

When was the Black Death?

Answer 1

1348

Question 2

What is Wattle and Daub?

Answer 2

Method of construction walls- made with twigs and clay or mud

Question 3

Pottage

Answer 3

Vegetable stew often ate by peasants

Question 4

Cesspit

Answer 4

A pit for sewage without treating it

Question 5

Small Beer

Answer 5

Low alcohol brew considered healthy

Question 6

Famine

Answer 6

Severe hunger of a large population of people, leading to death and diseases

Question 7

Midden

Answer 7

Dump for waste

Question 8

Pneumonic Plague

Answer 8

Affects respiratory system

Question 9

Cause of Pneumonic Plague?

Answer 9

Breathing in cough droplets from others

Question 10

Septicemic Plague

Answer 10

Inflects the circulatory system

Question 11

Cause of Septicemic Plague?

Answer 11

When infection reaches the bloodstream

Question 12

Gongfermer

Answer 12

Someone who dug out and removed human waste from cesspits or privies

Question 13

How did the Black Plague spread?

Answer 13

Overcrowded towns and villages
Lack of science and technology
People travelling
Careless kings and governments

Question 14

Dysentery

Answer 14

Infection of the intestine caused by contact with human faeces

Question 15

How did people get rid of their waste and consequences?

Answer 15

Putting on streets- disease

Question 16

Influenza

Answer 16

Virus that affects lungs caused by talking, coughing and sneezing

Question 17

Childbed fever

Answer 17

Infection of the uterus caused by unsanitary conditions during child birth

Question 18

4 Humours

Answer 18

Blood, Black Bile, Yellow Bile, Phlegm

Question 19

Why was there so much disease in towns?

Answer 19

Overcrowded, packed together, people did not know how to stay clean

Question 20

Science and Technology

Answer 20

Medieval people did not know about how diseases/ illnesses spread

Question 21

Treating illnesses

Answer 21

Did not know how to treat illnesses properly or safely

Question 22

Water/Streams

Answer 22

The water from streams was very dirty as gongfermers would often throw the human waste into the streams

Question 23

Ergotism

Answer 23

poisoning by eating grain or grasses infected with ergot fungus

Question 24

Contaminated

Answer 24

Making something unclean or dirty

Question 25

Christian

Answer 25

Almost everyone in medieval England was Christian and believed in God

Question 26

Kings and Government

Answer 26

Did not believe it was their responsibility to deal with the health of the people

Question 27

Germs

Answer 27

Germs were not discovered until 1861

Question 28

Urbanisation

Answer 28

90% of Medieval people lived in the countryside

Question 29

Rakers

Answer 29

Cleaned waste off of streets

Question 30

Conduit

Answer 30

Fountian for all people to use