Towns/Countrysides in Medieval times

Question 1

What is Wattle And Daub?

Answer 1

material used in building walls e.g muds and sticks

Question 2

What is Pottage?

Answer 2

A soup or stew

Question 3

What is a small beer?

Answer 3

ale thag contains a low percentage of alcohol

Question 4

What is harvest?

Answer 4

The process of gathering crops

Question 5

What is famine?

Answer 5

extreme scarcity of food

Question 6

What is a cesspit?

Answer 6

A pot for disposal of liquid waste/sewage

Question 7

What is a midden?

Answer 7

An old dump for domestic waste

Question 8

What does contaminated mean?

Answer 8

something impure filled with a poisonous/impure substance

Question 9

What is ergotism?

Answer 9

Poisoning from grains (rye)

Question 10

What was the job of rakers?

Answer 10

To clean the streets

Question 11

What was the role of gong farmers?

Answer 11

They emptied the latrines

Question 12

When was the Black Death?

Answer 12

1348

Question 13

What were the 4 humours they believed the body was made from?

Answer 13

Blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile

Question 14

What percent of population lived in the countryside?

Answer 14

90%

Question 15

What year was the bad harvest?

Answer 15

1315-1317

Question 16

What were toilets called in Medieval ages?

Answer 16

Privies

Question 17

What did they do with the waste from cesspits?

Answer 17

They collected it and spread it on fields to fertilise the fields

Question 18

Did people drink alcohol or water more often?

Answer 18

They often drank alcohol as the water was not safe

Question 19

What percentage of population died during the great famine?

Answer 19

10% between 1315 and 1322

Question 20

What is a conduit?

Answer 20

A channel which water is conveyed

Question 21

What does miasma mean?

Answer 21

Bad air

Question 22

When were germs discovered?

Answer 22

1861

Question 23

How was the Black Death spread?

Answer 23

Spread through unhygienic things such as rats living in houses (tightly packed), kings and government didn’t help them

Question 24

What is dysentery?

Answer 24

The infection of intestines caused by contact with human faeces

Question 25

What is influenza?

Answer 25

A virus that infected the lungs, passed on by coughing, sneezing and talking

Question 26

What is childbed fever?

Answer 26

A deadly infection on the uterus caused during child birth at home

Question 27

Give 2 reasons why living conditions were so bad?

Answer 27

Human and animal waste was dumped in the street
Rats would be attracted and live in houses

Question 28

How did beliefs and attitudes spread the Black Death?

Answer 28

They blamed god or miasma for the Black Death
The king believed he didn’t need to be responsible and therefore didn’t help stop the disease.

Question 29

How did science and technology spread the Black Death?

Answer 29

They didn’t know dirty living conditions caused disease
They didn’t quarantine instead they tried to run from the disease