Medieval Time

Question 0

Birthplace of the Black Plague

Answer 0

China

Question 1

Mini Ice Age

Answer 1

1315-1317
Change in climate led to crop failure, starvation, and death.
**Hits the peasant class the most

Question 2

Symptoms of the plague

Answer 2

Bulbous 
Septicemic form (100% mortality)

Question 3

What spread the plague?

Answer 3

Fleas.

Typically found on rats.

Question 4

Treatment for the Black Death

Answer 4

Lancing buboes, cutting it and draining the liquid from it.

Leeching.

Question 5

Physicians

Answer 5

University training.

Administered herbs and potions.

Question 6

Barbers

Answer 6

Also served as surgeons, did any kind of lancing or incisions.

Question 7

Theories about the Plague

Answer 7

Demonic forces.
Or
God was punishing people for their sins.

Question 7

Programs against Jews

Answer 7

Jewish communities were offer plague free because they had better hygiene. Jews were Christ-killers and thus the cause of the plague.
Forced them to wear Jew-indicators such as badges and often purged Jewish communities.

Question 9

Galen’s Theory

Answer 9

Health depends on the balance of 4 humors:
Blood, Phlegm, Yellow bile, Black bile
Basis of medicine until 17th century.

Question 10

Flagellanti

Answer 10

Self inflicted “penance” for the forgiveness of society’s sins.

Question 10

Deaths as a result of the bubonic plague

Answer 10

25,000,000

Question 11

Doctors Robe

Answer 11

Long tunics that covered a person from the neck down, typically accompanied by a face mask in which spices and flowers were kept in order to breathe “clean air”

Question 12

The Decameron

Answer 12

Written by Boccaccio
“The victims ate lunch with their friends and dinner with their ancestors”
Semi-fictional 1st hand account of how people dealt with the plague.

Question 14

Lack of Plague in Poland

Answer 14

They had better hygiene and bathed regularly.

Question 15

Cultural impact of plague

Answer 15

Church looses authority because even clergy became infected and to society this symbolized corruption.

Question 16

Social Effect of the Plague

Answer 16

Population plummets.
Supply and demand starts to affect labor, now farmers can demand higher wages.
Social mobility becomes slightly more possible kinda.

Question 17

Cause of the War: Succession

Answer 17

King Phillip IV of France dies without heir. Nobles compete and Philip of Valois (his cousin) is appointed King.
Edward III of England claims he is the rightful heir because he is the grandson of Phillip IV.

Question 18

Cause of the War: Flanders

Answer 18

French territory which sought independence from France.

Received aid from England.

Question 18

Cause of the war: Land dispute

Answer 18

1056- Norman invasions in England and Duke of Normandy becomes king,

French claim that Edward III was a vassal in France and couldn’t be King.

Question 20

French advantages in the hundred years war

Answer 20

Strength in numbers, larger population (16,000,000 people)

Question 21

English advantage in the Hundred Years’ War

Answer 21

Superior weaponry (welsh longbow) 
Avoided pitched battles, used guerrilla warfare. 
All fought in France

Question 22

Capture of John II

Answer 22

The English capture John II of France.

This leaves the Estates General in control of France

Question 23

Welsh Longbow

Answer 23

Could penetrate Knights armor
More powerful than crossbow, fired more rapidly (6 arrows per minute)
Needed a lot of space.

Question 24

Jaequerie

Answer 24

Peasant uprising of 1358
In response to economic & political grievances.
Crushed by aristocratic armies.

Question 25

Trouble in England

Answer 25

Peasant uprising in 1381 and put down by King Robert II.
He is forced to abdicate leaving Henry IV of Lancaster as King.
Henry IV makes peace with France.

Question 26

King Henry V

Answer 26

Reclaims French throne and goads French into starting the war again.
Burgundy helped to gain control of Normandy, Paris, and Northern France.

Question 27

Treaty of Troyes

Answer 27

1420
Henry V forces Charles VI to disown his son.
Henry V will then marry Charles VI’s daughter Catherine making Henry V the heir.
But, they both die leaving Henry VI (the baby) as King of England and France with mummy Catherine as a regent.

Question 28

The Return of Charles the Bastard

Answer 28

Starts a war claiming he is the rightful heir to the throne and not baby Henry.

Question 29

Joan of Arc

Answer 29

Saw visions from God to fight for France.
Led the Siege of Orleans and gained the throne for Charles VII.
Created French identity.

Question 30

The end of Joan

Answer 30

Charles turns her in!
She is tried for heresy by the English and burned at the stake.
War continues and the French win (no treaty)