Practise MYP History questions on 5.1 Public Health Before Modern Medicine and review the explanations to check your understanding.
Use these questions for topic practice and to find ideas you want to revisit in your notes or lessons.
Why did the advanced public health infrastructure of Ancient Rome fail to permanently solve the problem of disease in the empire?
How did social inequality most directly affect the medical treatments received by the poor in pre-modern societies?
The shift toward 'rational thinking' in Ancient Greek medicine was significant primarily because it:
In the context of pre-modern social inequality, how did the healthcare of the poor differ from that of the rich?
Why did the development of the printing press represent a breakthrough for healthcare during the Renaissance?
The Romans still lacked an understanding of germ theory
The aqueducts were built with poisonous materials
The sewage systems were only used by the emperor
The infrastructure was too expensive to maintain
They had better access to accurate anatomical drawings than the rich
They were the only ones who were allowed to use the Roman public baths
They were given priority in the valetudinaria hospitals
They were forced to rely on herbal remedies or prayer instead of professional physicians
Allowed for the immediate eradication of the Black Death
Introduced the use of antibiotics to balance the humours
Moved the explanation of illness away from the 'will of the gods' toward physical observation
Resulted in the first successful surgeries for infectious diseases
The rich had access to physicians while the poor relied on herbs or prayer
There was no difference because there was no medicine
The poor used physicians while the rich used prayer
The rich relied on herbal remedies while the poor used hospitals
It provided a way to track germ transmission
It was used to print the first medical insurance cards
It spread medical knowledge and anatomical findings more widely
It allowed for the mass production of antibiotics
