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OCR Year 10 Medieval Health Flashcards

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What is the name of the men who would take rubbish away from streets and dump it in the rivers?

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Rakers

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What is the name of the people who scoop out waste from a latrine?

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Gongfermer

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Towns had lots of street vendors and ………..

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taverns

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What was a common problem caused by strong brewed ale?

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drunkness

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Who brought livestock into towns to be slaughtered?

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drovers

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What were people called who traded goods?

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rich merchants

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what animals lived in the thatched rooves of townhouses?

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insects, rats and mice

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where did most people get water from

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water conduits

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where was most people toilets?

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outside in the yard

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what did a good harvest mean in the countryside

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plenty of food

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what were medieval houses made out of in the countryside

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wattle and daub

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when was the great famine

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1315-1322

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what is pottage

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a soup or stew made out of wheat, barley rye and oats

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what c affected health in towns caused by butchers?

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carcasses(animal)

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what factors are important for a society to have good health?

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wealth, beliefs and attitudes, science and technology, government, urbanisation, individuals who made discoveries

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when was the medieval period?

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1250-1500

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what did bad harvest lead to?

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starvation and famine

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what did most houses have for human excrement?

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cesspit

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where did people in the countryside get their water from?

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streams and wells

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where would farm animals be sheltered overnight?

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inside the home

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how did cesspits affect health?

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they weren’t always emptied- contaminated water supplies

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how did housing in countrysides cause bad health?

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bad ventilation and animals inside spreading disease

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how did housing in towns cause bad health?

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filth on streets, houses packed together, rats and mice living in rooves

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how did latrines affect health and cause disease?

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some weren’t lined so excrement leaked into cellars of surrounding houses

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what is a midden?

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used to store floor sweepings and animal dung

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what is erogtism?

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poisoning produced by eating food affected by fungus

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how was living in a town good for peoples diets?

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lots of varied foods brought into towns and sold on markets

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what was a major problem with people drinking water from streams?

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people drank the same water they bathed in, animals bathed in and where feces where disposed into

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what types of houses would merchants own?

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larger more spacious houses

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where did rich and poor people live?

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poor people lived in town centres where the houses were closely packed together but rich people had larger less crammed houses on the outskirts of towns

31
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What we’re the 3 types of the black death?

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Bubonic, Pnuemonic, Septicimic

32
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When did the black death hit England?

A

1348

33
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What did people think disease was caused by in medieval times?

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Miasma- bad air
4 humours- blood, black bile, yellow bile, and phlegm

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How was the black death caused?

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Rats travelling throughout cites infecting 100s of people each day.

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How did the black death spread to quickly?

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living conditions
beliefs and attitudes
no science or technology

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How did people treat the black death?

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people would rob camomile lotion over buboes to stop them from itching, tie live roads and chickens over buboes and cut incisions in there arms to let blood out hoping it would balance the 4 humours.

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What we’re the religious attitudes towards the black death?

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people believed it was God punishing them so allowed it to spread, people also prayed for forgiveness and asking God not to infect them.

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How did the church react to the black death?

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people were urged to confess their sins, held special church services, bishops ordered large processions

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What were the people called who would whip themselves because they believed God would take away the plague if they did that?

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flagellants

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What did people believe caused the black death?

A
  • supernatural movement of plates
  • miasma
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how did people avoid getting the plague?

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burning rosemary, not take hot baths or excerise, not look infected people in the eye and carry around posies of flowers

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how many people died due to the black death?

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3.5 million people died in 2 years

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how quick did the black death travel?

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500 miles in 500 days

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how did the church keep up with all the deaths?

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buried people in mass graves(multiple people in one grave)

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what was the impact of the black death in towns?

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people forced children and houselodgers onto to the streets, bodies of people threw on streets

46
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when did the black death die down?

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during 1350

47
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what did people do after the black death?

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councils and mayors kept towns clean

48
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what does public health mean?

A

the health of the population as a whole

49
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what did people do to try and get away from the plague?

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people would move into the countryside hoping to keep away from the black death but in reality they just spreaded it quicker

50
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What is miasma?

A

bad air

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