L4 - Students may create a developed explanation by explaining the complexities of
similarities arising from the broader historical context supported by factual knowledge and
understanding.
showing the similarities in a wider context#
2 developed explanations.
Explain two ways in which the Black Death in the Middle ages and the cholera epidemics in
the 19th century were similar.
Black Death = 1346
Cholera Epidemics = 1832, 1849, 1866, late 1870s
Black Death (1346, 1361 - 62, 1369, 1379 - 83, Cholera Epidemics (1831, 1849,
1389-93 and first half of the 15th century, great 1866, late 1870s)
plague of 1665)
How was it Spread by the Bubonic and Pneumonic plague: Spread due to the dirty and
spread? Bubonic = fleas that latched onto rats overcrowded living conditions of
Pneumonic = contact with victim’s breath or the poor - [Dirty Water]
blood.
Deaths 1603 kills 38,000 Londoners Killed 50,000 in the first year
Kills ⅓ of population between 1348 - 1350 (2 (1831)
years) 1848 = 60,000 deaths
200 people died per day in the first wave 1854 = 20,000 deaths
Consequences Fields unplowed - peasants died Great Stink
[BAD] Food wasn’t harvested, rotten in fields
Village farm animals = untended / escaped
Villages were wiped out
Survivors = starvation
Towns and cities = food shortages
Medieval Lords lose farmer peasants therefore
become sheep farmers causing a
Lack of supply in basics e.g bread.
INFLATION occurs.
E.g. in some places of London food prices
quadrupled so for the poor it was unaffordable.
Statute of Labourers - 1351
Impacts Peasants demand higher wages after believing More public Health reforms such
[GOOD] they’re blessed by God. as 1858 London Sewage system
Lords encourage peasants to break the old law of work
not being able to leave villages without a Lord’s 1866 - Sanitary Act
permission and work for the new Lord due to
worker shortages.
Some gained inheritance
Catholic Church reputation damaged:
similarities arising from the broader historical context supported by factual knowledge and
understanding.
showing the similarities in a wider context#
2 developed explanations.
Explain two ways in which the Black Death in the Middle ages and the cholera epidemics in
the 19th century were similar.
Black Death = 1346
Cholera Epidemics = 1832, 1849, 1866, late 1870s
Black Death (1346, 1361 - 62, 1369, 1379 - 83, Cholera Epidemics (1831, 1849,
1389-93 and first half of the 15th century, great 1866, late 1870s)
plague of 1665)
How was it Spread by the Bubonic and Pneumonic plague: Spread due to the dirty and
spread? Bubonic = fleas that latched onto rats overcrowded living conditions of
Pneumonic = contact with victim’s breath or the poor - [Dirty Water]
blood.
Deaths 1603 kills 38,000 Londoners Killed 50,000 in the first year
Kills ⅓ of population between 1348 - 1350 (2 (1831)
years) 1848 = 60,000 deaths
200 people died per day in the first wave 1854 = 20,000 deaths
Consequences Fields unplowed - peasants died Great Stink
[BAD] Food wasn’t harvested, rotten in fields
Village farm animals = untended / escaped
Villages were wiped out
Survivors = starvation
Towns and cities = food shortages
Medieval Lords lose farmer peasants therefore
become sheep farmers causing a
Lack of supply in basics e.g bread.
INFLATION occurs.
E.g. in some places of London food prices
quadrupled so for the poor it was unaffordable.
Statute of Labourers - 1351
Impacts Peasants demand higher wages after believing More public Health reforms such
[GOOD] they’re blessed by God. as 1858 London Sewage system
Lords encourage peasants to break the old law of work
not being able to leave villages without a Lord’s 1866 - Sanitary Act
permission and work for the new Lord due to
worker shortages.
Some gained inheritance
Catholic Church reputation damaged:
