Changing living conditions: housing, food, clean water and waste (OCR GCSE History A (Explaining the Modern World)): Flashcards
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Period when fish became vital to diet (religious meat ban)
Period when fish became vital to diet (religious meat ban)
16th century
Why people avoided drinking water in early modern Britain
Why people avoided drinking water in early modern Britain
Believed it could make them ill
Drinks preferred over water in early modern Britain
Drinks preferred over water in early modern Britain
Wine, ale or beer
New foods from Asia/Americas
New foods from Asia/Americas
Pumpkin, tomatoes, peppers, chillies, cocoa, tea, coffee
Health problems from new foods
Health problems from new foods
Obesity and rotting teeth
How lower class cleaned their bodies
How lower class cleaned their bodies
Using dry linen cloth
Free public water sources in towns
Free public water sources in towns
Conduits and bosses
What bosses were
What bosses were
Smaller versions of conduits
Who collected rubbish baskets
Who collected rubbish baskets
Scavengers or rakers
What privies were used for
What privies were used for
Excrement disposal
Where cesspits were built
Where cesspits were built
In gardens, rarely inside the house
Problem caused by cesspits
Problem caused by cesspits
Dunghills in backyards that leaked into streets/alleys