Lj2 - Week 05 - Henry VIII and The Black Death

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England's Horrible History

Lesson 2

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Henry VIII

&

The Black Death

Henry VIII

Name: Henry VIII

1491-1547

Crowned King of England in 1509

Started CoE in 1534

Joined England and Wales in 1536

Trademark appearance:

Extremely tall. Blingy jewellery. Large codpiece. 

Rich, colourful, expensive layered clothes.

Profile

Favourite hangouts:

Palaces, banquets, churches.

Likes: sports, beheading, divorcing, eating banquets.

Dislikes: treason, traitors.

Looking for: 

Wife number 7; pretty, fertile, submissive.

A woman who will attend to his every need. 

Must be able to produce a (male) heir to his throne.

Catherine of Aragon

Anne Boleyn

annulled 

Jane Seymour

Anne of Cleves

Catherine Howard

Catherine Parr

The Plague

• 1347 Black Sea Area
• 1348 Britain, 3 months later--> London
• In 1350, the plague died away
  
• up to 2 million people had died 
• In 1665, the plague came back.

The dreaded plague was thought to begin in 1130s China.

By August 1348 it reached Britain and 3 months later, it reached the city of London.

In 1350, the plague finally died away but

up to 2 million people had died from the plague by then.

In 1665, the plague came back. London was filthy, stinking and overcrowded and because temperatures rose throughout the spring and summer, the plague went from strenght to strenght killing lots of people once more (around 100,000).

Funny fact: people believed that the Great Fire of London

(last week's lesson) put an end to the epidemic.

(Not true though...)

What do you think?

• Why did the plague spread so quickly (both in 1348 and 1665)?
• Why was there so little understanding about medicine and health in the 14th Century?
• What would have happened if people had known about germs or had had microscopes?
• Were there any positive outcomes of the 1348 plague?

Homework Activities

The plague was not a pleasant experience! People in the 14th Century didn't know much about what caused sickness and how to treat it.
Look at the symptoms, the cures and preventative measures and answer exercises A, B and C.

A. Put the list of gruesome symptoms into the order that you think a sufferer would have experienced them. 

1. internal bleeding

2. arms and legs become sore

3. headache, chills and fever

4. death

5. swellings split open, oozing blood and pus

6. swellings on neck and limbs

7. nausea and vomiting

B. Which four of the following do you think were used as 'cures' during the plague of 1348-1350?

1. putting the tail feathers of a live chicken onto the boils

2. rubbing antiseptic cream onto the boils

3. drinking lots of water

4. slicing the boils open, burning them with a red-hot poker

5. bathing in your own urine

6. eating plenty of fruit and vegetables

7. applying a live frog or toad to the buboes

C. Which three of the following do you think were used to 'prevent' the plague?

1. taking aspirine

2. sterilising everything in the house

3. eating a balanced diet

4. smoking tobacco

5. smelling sweet herbs or flowers

6. praying

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2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

Internal bleeding

Sore arms and legs.

Headache, chills and fever.

Death.

Swellings split open.

Swellings on neck and limbs.

Nausea and vomitting.