Sewer Anatomy
The Medieval Islamic world made use of the Hydraulic construction of these iconic elements of the Roman World
What are Aqueducts?
The Babylonians were motivated to construct urban drainage systems because they, like many others viewed this as taboo.
What is uncleanliness?
The fall of this empire led to the loss of many concepts such as baths, toilets, sewage systems, and basic sanitation
What is the Roman Empire?
This king was lucky to survive a certain Latrine related disaster.
Who was Henry VI, king of Germany
60 German nobles are said to have died in this disaster involving a cesspit
What is the Erfurt Latrine Disaster?
A decree in 1530 required that each new house in Paris had to be equipped with this
What is a Cesspool?
These men made their living slinking around Londons sewers sieving through raw sewage for trinkets.
What are Toshers?
This city was unlike it's other medieval counterparts in that it contained a highly sophisticated sewer system capable of quickly evacuating waste and rainwater.
What is Cordoba?
It was on the orders of this King that open sewers were first implemented in Paris
The addition of flushing toilets helped to overwhelm cesspits leading to this disaster in the summer months of 1858.
What is the Great Stink
From this event the popularity of the Flush Toilet was greatly boosted.
What was the Great Exhibition of 1851?
In Medieval Islamic towns, this commonly substituted for the presence of a municipal authority which controlled public hygiene
What is the principle of common citizenship?
Or
What is the Koranic injunction of not harming another muslim?
It is in these major cities that centralized sanitation with sewers first appeared.
(Name any one of the three)
What is Harappa, Mohenjo-Daro, or Lothal?
This person was the first Helene Doctor to state that water quality may influence people's health.
Who is Alcmaeon of Croton?
What is clogged or ruined?
Due to Pompeii's waste disposal system, this modification was made to the streets to help limit the contact of the population with human waste.
What are raised sidewalks, and/or pondera (Stepping Stones)?
The Pyramid of Sahure had 400 meters of this.
What is copper piping?
In this city, the bathrooms and toilet seats of the well to do were often made out of limestone.
What is Herakopolis?
In 1370 this provost made significant improvements to the Parisian Sewer System including making the Rue Montmarte underground and vaulted
Who was Hughes Abriot?
In 1878 this pleasure steamer sunk in an area where millions of gallons of sewage had just been dumped, costing the lives of 650 of its passengers
What is the SS Princess Alice?
The first known flush Toilet was implemented at this ancient palace.
What is the Knossos palace?
These vessels formed a major part of London's plan to ease the sewage crisis by bringing waste out to sea and dumping it.
What are Bovril Boats?
In this city, the sewer system was most notably divided into four distinct parts:
1) small sewers from the house; (2) residential sewers linked with the house sewers; (3) main sewers along the streets linked with the residential sewers; (4) drainage ditches and the rivers receiving water from the sewers.
What is Chang'an?
The name of the main collector of Rome's Sewers inspired by a certain goddess.
What is Cloaca Maxima?
In the 1830's poor Sewer management and general lack of sanitation were the main cause of this epidemic
What is Cholera?