OCR Year 10 Medieval Health

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Rakers

Question 2

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

Answer 2

Gongfermer

Question 3

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

Answer 3

taverns

Question 4

What was a common problem caused by strong brewed ale?

Answer 4

drunkness

Question 5

Who brought livestock into towns to be slaughtered?

Answer 5

drovers

Question 6

What were people called who traded goods?

Answer 6

rich merchants

Question 7

what animals lived in the thatched rooves of townhouses?

Answer 7

insects, rats and mice

Question 8

where did most people get water from

Answer 8

water conduits

Question 9

where was most people toilets?

Answer 9

outside in the yard

Question 10

what did a good harvest mean in the countryside

Answer 10

plenty of food

Question 11

what were medieval houses made out of in the countryside

Answer 11

wattle and daub

Question 12

when was the great famine

Answer 12

1315-1322

Question 13

what is pottage

Answer 13

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

Question 14

what c affected health in towns caused by butchers?

Answer 14

carcasses(animal)

Question 15

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

Answer 15

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

Question 16

when was the medieval period?

Answer 16

1250-1500

Question 17

what did bad harvest lead to?

Answer 17

starvation and famine

Question 18

what did most houses have for human excrement?

Answer 18

cesspit

Question 19

where did people in the countryside get their water from?

Answer 19

streams and wells

Question 20

where would farm animals be sheltered overnight?

Answer 20

inside the home

Question 21

how did cesspits affect health?

Answer 21

they weren’t always emptied- contaminated water supplies

Question 22

how did housing in countrysides cause bad health?

Answer 22

bad ventilation and animals inside spreading disease

Question 23

how did housing in towns cause bad health?

Answer 23

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

Question 24

how did latrines affect health and cause disease?

Answer 24

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

Question 25

what is a midden?

Answer 25

used to store floor sweepings and animal dung

Question 26

what is erogtism?

Answer 26

poisoning produced by eating food affected by fungus

Question 27

how was living in a town good for peoples diets?

Answer 27

lots of varied foods brought into towns and sold on markets

Question 28

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

Answer 28

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

Question 29

what types of houses would merchants own?

Answer 29

larger more spacious houses

Question 30

where did rich and poor people live?

Answer 30

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

Question 31

What we're the 3 types of the black death?

Answer 31

Bubonic, Pnuemonic, Septicimic

Question 32

When did the black death hit England?

Answer 32

1348

Question 33

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

Answer 33

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

Question 34

How was the black death caused?

Answer 34

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

Question 35

How did the black death spread to quickly?

Answer 35

living conditions beliefs and attitudes no science or technology

Question 36

How did people treat the black death?

Answer 36

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.

Question 37

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

Answer 37

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

Question 38

How did the church react to the black death?

Answer 38

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

Question 39

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

Answer 39

flagellants

Question 40

What did people believe caused the black death?

Answer 40

- supernatural movement of plates - miasma

Question 41

how did people avoid getting the plague?

Answer 41

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

Question 42

how many people died due to the black death?

Answer 42

3.5 million people died in 2 years

Question 43

how quick did the black death travel?

Answer 43

500 miles in 500 days

Question 44

how did the church keep up with all the deaths?

Answer 44

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

Question 45

what was the impact of the black death in towns?

Answer 45

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

Question 46

when did the black death die down?

Answer 46

during 1350

Question 47

what did people do after the black death?

Answer 47

councils and mayors kept towns clean

Question 48

what does public health mean?

Answer 48

the health of the population as a whole

Question 49

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

Answer 49

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

Question 50

What is miasma?

Answer 50

bad air