The concept of hospitals as specific places where the ill were treated has not always existed. This concept first emerged in Europe during the Middle Ages with hospices. Which event helped bring about this change?
A) During the wars, the monasteries were destroyed and it was more feasible to build multiple smaller hospices.
B) Hospices could provide a place where crusaders could hide and find rest and take their sick when the monasteries were full.
C) Crusaders discovered Persians and Arabs hospitals cared just for the sick and were staffed by religious and secular people.
D) During the Crusades, there needed to be separate hospices where the sick could be taken because of the distance of travel to a monastery.
Ans: C
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The event that brought about the change was when the crusaders discovered Persians and Arabs care just for the ill in their hospice, or hospital. Care was also provided in the monasteries, and hospices did not develop because the monasteries were destroyed. Although the hospices offered additional locations to care for the sick and injured, and it offered places to make it quicker to receive help, these were not the events that brought about the change in the health care system during the Middle Ages.
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