Medieval Towns and Countryside Flashcards
A technique used of making the walls out of sticks then covering the walls in sticky mud made from clay, sand,animal dung and straw.
Wattle and Daub
The profession of those whose job was to collect human waste from privies and cesspits.
Gong farmer
Something that was used to fertilise the fields and would often be collected so it could be spread onto fields so that crops could grow.
Human Waste
The year that the Plague (Black Death) arrived in England
1348
What people thought the Black Death was caused by. Meaning bad air.
Miasma
What people drank in opposed to drinking water. Since this was considered safer than water.
Ale or a weakened down version called Small beer
Poisoning produced by eating food affected by ergot, typically resulted in headache, vomiting or diarrhoea.
Erogotism
The system where the King was at the top and peasant’s were at the bottom.
Fuedal System
Reasons for water being contaminated.
People bathed themselves and animals in the same water they drank from
The belief about King’s.
King’s were put on Earth by God to rule over them. Divine right of King’s.
Machines used for textiles.
Watermills and windmills were the most powerful machinery of the sim and were used for textiles.
Reasons for the spreading of diseases.
Towns were mostly overpopulated and there was no knowledge of how diseases spread.
The percentage of people who loved in the countryside before 1500
90%
Roles of peasant’s
Work for wages, not everyone had land and allowed a house.
The liquids people believed the body was made out of.
blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile.
The person who made decisions for people’s health.
The priest
Where animals would be kept.
Animals would be kept inside the home alongside humans as they were considered too valuable to lose.
The diet of a peasant.
They would have a healthy diet consisting of vegetables, milk, cheese and fish. They mostly eat pottage which is stew made from vegetables.
The belief about those who caught the Black Death.
God had given them the black death because of their wrongdoing and sins.
The negatives of houses made from wattle and daub.
Houses would not have a chimney therefore there would have been bad ventilation. Animals living inside would spread diseases.
A pit for the disposal of liquid waste and sewage.
Cesspit
People employed to clean the streets.
Rakers
The animal that would live in people’s thatched houses.
Rats
Why there was no connection made about diseases.
There was a lack of knowledge and people were unaware of germs.
