Several forms of contraception were around during that time, including, condoms, vaginal suppositories, coitus interruptus (pulling out) and plants as a birth control.  Condoms were made from animals’ skins and intestines and then later with linens.  Vaginal suppositories were made out of everything from ground dates and honey to cow and crocodile dung.  Pulling out was the same then as it is now, with about the same results.  Plants were used as birth control, and were so well used that today most are extinct.   If these didn’t work, women tried jumping up and down, douches made of some of the same stuff as suppositories and sneezing while on their knees.