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What is the harvest?

A bad harvest meant a dearth of food. What does dearth mean?

Medieval Daily Bread

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1
A bad harvest meant a dearth of food. What does dearth mean?
Lack of
Borrowing
Too much
Incorrect
2
What is the harvest?
The land given to barons from the king
The planting of wheat in the spring
Peasants gathering crops from the fields
A hymn sung at the end of the Catholic mass
3
An incredibly wet summer and terrible harvest let to the Great Famine. When was the Great Famine?
1415-1416
1315-1316
1515-1516
1215-1216
4
A good harvest was not intrinsically linked to population growth
True
False
5
What % of the population died in the Great Famine?
20%
10%
15%
5%
6
Nothing mattered more than the harvest in medieval life
True
False
7
The poor harvests and bad weather lasted until 1322
False
True
8
Both women and men, who were peasants, would have been used to physical labour
True
False
9
What followed the Great Famine which made life for peasants even worse?
The Black Death
A secondary famine that lasted 2 years
A high tax from the king to fund his French wars
Outbreaks of animal disease that attacked cattle and sheep
10
Why would peasants be considered to be fairly healthy?
They worked in the fresh air; physical work made them fit
They would have eaten a lot in order to fuel their manual labour
Working long hours was good for the body
There was no processed food for them
11
What is a Psalter?
A medieval salt shaker
A medieval form of hymn
A medieval book of biblical stories; highly decorated
A medieval medical technique for draining blood