History GCSE - Medieval Living Conditions
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- Medieval Living Conditions
- Peasants Limited Diet
- Subsistence farming - little spare food and bad harvest ending in disaster
- Peasants kept cows to make dairy products
- No fridges, fresh meat went off went off fast - could be preserved with salt or cured
- Peasants ate preserved foods such as pickeled fish and cured bacon
- Bad weather made it hard to grow crops - poisonous fungus grow on damp grain and end up in flour
- Many people Malnourished - crop failures could lead to a major famine
- Basic Housing Conditions
- Small houses, wooden frames, walls built with sticks and clay, thatched roofs and hard earth floor
- The 'windows' were small openings covered by shutters- left houses cold and damp
- Open fire used for heating and cooking - gave off lots of smoke
- Only wealthy could afford glass
- Wealthy built castles or manors with stone, they had glass windows and large firefplaces
- Wealthy built castles or manors with stone, they had glass windows and large firefplaces
- No running water or toilets, water for drinking or cooking from wells and rivers
- No sewers, waste went into the street or a river
- Small houses, wooden frames, walls built with sticks and clay, thatched roofs and hard earth floor
- Public Health suffered because of poor living conditions
- Lived in cramped houses with animals - diseases spread fast
- Malnutrition made it easier for people to catch diseases
- Famine often led to epidemics of serious diseases such as the flu or smallpox
- Poor life expectancy
- Infections, accidents and serious illnesses (like tuberculosis) were common
- Lots of children died young, vulnerable to childhood diseases (like measles) and accidents in the home
- People knew dirty water and human waste were linked to bad health
- Miasma theory
- No link between dirt and disease
- Didn't understand importance of good sanitation
- Didn't know about germs, no idea of how to stop them spreading
- Peasants Limited Diet
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