Medieval Towns and Countryside

Question 1

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.

Answer 1

Wattle and Daub

Question 2

The profession of those whose job was to collect human waste from privies and cesspits.

Answer 2

Gong farmer

Question 3

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.

Answer 3

Human Waste

Question 4

The year that the Plague (Black Death) arrived in England

Answer 4

1348

Question 5

What people thought the Black Death was caused by. Meaning bad air.

Answer 5

Miasma

Question 6

What people drank in opposed to drinking water. Since this was considered safer than water.

Answer 6

Ale or a weakened down version called Small beer

Question 7

Poisoning produced by eating food affected by ergot, typically resulted in headache, vomiting or diarrhoea.

Answer 7

Erogotism

Question 8

The system where the King was at the top and peasant’s were at the bottom.

Answer 8

Fuedal System

Question 9

Reasons for water being contaminated.

Answer 9

People bathed themselves and animals in the same water they drank from

Question 10

The belief about King’s.

Answer 10

King’s were put on Earth by God to rule over them. Divine right of King’s.

Question 11

Machines used for textiles.

Answer 11

Watermills and windmills were the most powerful machinery of the sim and were used for textiles.

Question 12

Reasons for the spreading of diseases.

Answer 12

Towns were mostly overpopulated and there was no knowledge of how diseases spread.

Question 13

The percentage of people who loved in the countryside before 1500

Answer 13

90%

Question 14

Roles of peasant’s

Answer 14

Work for wages, not everyone had land and allowed a house.

Question 15

The liquids people believed the body was made out of.

Answer 15

blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile.

Question 16

The person who made decisions for people’s health.

Answer 16

The priest

Question 17

Where animals would be kept.

Answer 17

Animals would be kept inside the home alongside humans as they were considered too valuable to lose.

Question 18

The diet of a peasant.

Answer 18

They would have a healthy diet consisting of vegetables, milk, cheese and fish. They mostly eat pottage which is stew made from vegetables.

Question 19

The belief about those who caught the Black Death.

Answer 19

God had given them the black death because of their wrongdoing and sins.

Question 20

The negatives of houses made from wattle and daub.

Answer 20

Houses would not have a chimney therefore there would have been bad ventilation. Animals living inside would spread diseases.

Question 21

A pit for the disposal of liquid waste and sewage.

Answer 21

Cesspit

Question 22

People employed to clean the streets.

Answer 22

Rakers

Question 23

The animal that would live in people’s thatched houses.

Answer 23

Rats

Question 24

Why there was no connection made about diseases.

Answer 24

There was a lack of knowledge and people were unaware of germs.

Question 25

The reason for wealthy people moving to the countryside.

Answer 25

People wished to seek clean air.

Question 26

Types of Black Death

Answer 26

Bubonic,Pneumonic,Septicemic

Question 27

How much of the population was killed by the Bubonic plague.

Answer 27

1/3

Question 28

Famine

Answer 28

Extreme scarcity of food.

Question 29

A dunghill or refuse heap

Answer 29

Midden

Question 30

Effects of the Bubonic plague

Answer 30

Painful swelling, intense fever, blisters, crazed, delirious