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Example Question #701 : Ap European History
What was considered the lowest social standing in early British history (1066-1600)?
Squire
Gentry
Serf
Knight
Baronet
Serf
Serfs were, essentially, the servant or commoner class. Often a serf would serve under a baron or lord who managed a fief (an area of land assigned to that lord by the king for management and protection). Serfs could be farmers, tradesmen, or servants to the gentry (nobility). Being a servant was the highest rank that could be achieved by a serf, unless one could conduct themselves well in battle and earn a knighthood.
Example Question #702 : Ap European History
Which group of British society during the Iron Age (55 BCE and onward), was considered the Briton's religious and intellectual class?
The Celts
The squires
The Druids
The friars
The mages
The Druids
The druids were an integral part of early Briton pagan religious practice. They were both healers and in their own way, preachers. While the Druids did use stone sites like Stonehenge for their religious practices, opposed to popular belief the Druids are not responsible for Stonehenge's creation.
Example Question #703 : Ap European History
What social class were directly placed below kings in Anglo-Saxon culture?
Knights
Barons
Earls
Thanes
Dukes
Thanes
Thanes, sometimes called earls, were the noble/ruling class before the establishment of one king in Britain with a house of lords underneath him. While Earls was as one of the answers it was not the correct popular name for them at the time. Thanes were only called earls in one area of early Britain, called Kent.
Example Question #81 : Social And Economic History
In the nineteenth century, the persistent belief among officials was that cholera was spread by __________.
rotten meat
contaminated water supplies
working in factories
proximity to livestock
foul-smelling air
foul-smelling air
Cholera proved to be one of the largest problems of the rapid urbanization and industrialization of the nineteenth century. Its spread was kept unchecked for two different but related reasons: its prevalence among the working poor and the incorrect beleif about its method of spreading. Most medical authorities of the time insisted it was caused by foul-smelling air in cities rather than the contaminated water supplies that actually spread cholera.
Example Question #82 : Social And Economic History
Which of the following individuals is a British social reformer known for his attempts to improve sanitation and public health in urban Britain?
Edwin Chadwick
Robert Peel
Charles Dickens
Jeremy Bentham
William Cockerill
Edwin Chadwick
Edwin Chadwick is a well-known British social reformer who was active during the Industrial Revolution. Among other achievements, he is credited with helping pass the Public Health Act of 1848. Chadwick was concerned with the social well-being of the poor in British cities, in particular with the sanitation and public health of factory life.
Example Question #706 : Ap European History
Which of the following diseases was rife in European urban societies in the nineteenth century and is spread through contaminated water?
Smallpox
Syphilis
Polio
Bubonic Plague
Cholera
Cholera
Cholera is an extremely deadly disease that was prevalent in urban European society during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It is spread through contaminated water and causes death through dehydration. The disease, like many diseases, disproportionately targets the poor and those without access to clean water. Studies of the disease led to improvements in public health, sanitation, and water treatments. The disease is now mostly eradicated in the Western world, but continues to routinely devastate parts of the developing world.
Example Question #87 : Social And Economic History
During the Middle Ages in Europe, health care was the dominant responsibility of this group.
University-trained doctors
Children
Physician's guild members
Women
Men
Women
Despite being excluded from guilds and universities, the majority of caregivers in the Middle Ages were women, in particular family members and domestic servants of families.
Example Question #83 : Social And Economic History
Which of the following individual's innovative work on sterilization and sanitation led to far fewer deaths during surgeries and in hospitals?
Louis Pasteur
Henry Cavendish
Michael Faraday
Lord Byron
Joseph Lister
Joseph Lister
Joseph Lister was a British surgeon in the nineteenth century who pioneered antiseptic surgery and greatly improved the safety and survival rate of surgeries. He expanded upon Louis Pasteur's ideas on “germ theory,” applying Pasteur’s theories to surgery and hospital experiences.
Example Question #5 : Sanitation And Health Care
Edward Jenner is notable for __________.
eradicating the plague from European society
popularizing the pasteurization process
developing the first smallpox vaccine
introducing the potato to Europe
developing the first polio vaccine
developing the first smallpox vaccine
Edward Jenner developed the first smallpox vaccine in 1798. His revelation rested on an observation that milkmaids who had caught cowpox did not ever contract the far more virulent and deleterious smallpox. So, Jenner started inoculating test subjects with cowpox and determined that it worked as a vaccine against smallpox. This invention would dramatically alter life for European people and contributed to the skyrocketing population growth of the next two centuries.
Example Question #711 : Ap European History
The observation of microorganisms for the first time in the __________ century contributed immensely to the advancement of medical science.
nineteenth
twentieth
eighteenth
fifteenth
seventeenth
seventeenth
Microorganisms were observed for the first time in the seventeenth century by the Dutch scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. This opened up the world of the microscopic to doctors and medical scientists for the first time and would eventually contribute to massive advancements in medical understanding and practice.
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