1. Did health and medicine decline between 500 and 1400?
LO: Identify the main features of medicine in western Europe and the Islamic world
Starter: Do you think medicine progressed or regressed during the Middle Ages? Write down your hypothesis explaining why.

2. List the countries you think were in the Arabic Empire during the Middle Ages

4. Task 1: You must read through the pages that you have been allocated and find key information
You will either look at
Islamic Empire
Christianity
Can you find examples of either:
Things which improve in medicine
Things which either decline or stagnate (stay the same)
NOTE: Be careful to write the dates where they are given

5. Western Europe (Christianity) Edexcel (white and green)   
Edexcel (white and green)
p38 = Training of doctors
p39 = Surgery and anatomy
p = Medicine in hospitals
p42 = causes of disease
p = treatments -
SHP (White) Book
p70-71 = Surgery and herbal remedies
p72-73 = Medicine in hospitals
p76-77 = Church Medicine
p78-79 = Experiences of the wealthy and the poor
Islamic Civilisations
SHP (White) Book
p Arab medicine  -
Heinemann (handout)
p44-45 = Islamic ideas about cause and cures
p46 = Diagnosis and treatment
p47 = Islamic surgery
Scott (handout)
p = Islamic ideas about disease

6. Progress in Medicine
Decline or stagnation of medical ideas
Islam
Christianity
2) Write all the key points you have found into the appropriate box on your table

7. Progress in Medicine
Decline or stagnation of medical ideas
Islam
Christianity
3) Now working with the person next to you verbally exchange information to fill out the other section of the table

8. Progress in Medicine
Decline or stagnation of medical ideas
Islam
Christianity

9. Medicine between 500 and 1400 AD
No Decline
Complete decline

10. Why were they still reading Galen in 1350?
War
Government
The Church controlled education. Most people who could read were priests and monks. The church banned books they thought went against their teachings.
Use the information on pages 48 and 49 (Edexcel textbook) to complete your spider diagrams – make the, as detailed as you can
Religion

11. Highlight all the things that helped the development of medicine in one colour, and hindered medicine in another colour.
Rank the factors from the most to the least important.

12. Look at the bullet points on page 49 which begin ‘By the 1300s’
For each of these bullet points, discuss how they would help medicine progress.

13. Did health and medicine decline between 500 and 1400?
On one hand
On the other hand

14. Complete hand notes – you should have at least 5 points for each side.
Write a conclusion (in full sentences/paragraphs) for the question – it must be at least 100 words.