Black Death

What was the Black Death?

1. A plague that came to Europe

What was the plague characterized?

10. Big black soars all over the person's body

The Black Death killed about what percentage of the population of Europe?

11. One third

What was a significant fact about the deaths?

12. So many people died that the other people couldn't bury the bodies fast enough

What was the result of this?

13. Whole villages could be killed by plague

What years did the Black Death occur in Europe?

1347-1351

The Black Death started our modern day __________ and ______________.

14. System & demand for laborers

What fell apart during the Black Death?

15. The Feudal Manor system

What were the two major problems for both the peasants and nobles?

16. Peasants - there were not enough people left to work in the fields : Nobles - They had to work in their own fields

How did the peasants use that to their advantage?

17. They could charge nobles for their services and only work for the highest wages

Did all peasants stay where they were originally from?

18. No, some moved off the manor system and went to the cities for more work

What were some symptoms of the Black Death?

19. High fever, swollen tongue, sweating, weakness

How long was the Black Death in Europe?

2. Four years (1347-1351)

After the plague, there was no extra _______.

21. Laborers

What is considered the most unusual feature of a plague doctor?

22. His mask

The Black Death entered Europe through ________?

23. Sicily

The overwhelming awareness of _____ in the middle ages was a result of the Bubonic Plague?

24. Death

A ____ ______ and cleanliness kept most Jews free from the Black Death?

25. Koshier Diet

Where did it come from?

3. Eastern & Central Asia

The percentage of people in Europe believed to have died from the plague

33

The year in which the largest number of Europeans died from the plague

348

How did it travel to Europe?

4. Through trade (Rats traveled in Cargo ships)

What animals/insects carried the plague?

5. Fleas & Rats

What was the process in which the person would get infected?

6. The ships would dock & unload, the rats would jump off and enter the city, the flies would leave the rats and land on humans (biting them) then infecting them

What the reason that rats and fleas could thrive?

7. The dirty conditions

As many as ____ of the peasants in the English villages died.

75%

People moved outside of the cities and would spread the plague to where?

8. The countryside

The Black Death was sometimes called what?

9. Bubonic plague

What were the attempts to stop the plague?

A doctor's robe & "leeching and bleeding"

How is the bacteria carried?

A flea drinking rat blood

A visit to a holy site

Pilgrimage

The version of the plague that attacked the lungs and could be spread by droplet infection

Pneumonic

A _____ crisis developed.

Population

What color was the bubo at first? What color did it change to?

Started red and finished dark purple or black

One consequence of _____ & ________ was susceptibility to disease.

Starvation & Poverty

What other name was used to refer to the Black Death?

The Great Mortality

How is the disappearance of the plague explained?

The black rats that carried the disease have been replaced by brown rats that didn't carry anything

What was one of the best ways to treat the plague?

Bloodletting

The apple-sized, pus filled bumps that grew on the armpits and groins of sufferers

Bubo

Kings use a _________ to rule, raise taxes, and pass laws.

Bureaucracy

How did the people try and avoid the plague?

By Keeping clean and hygiene

The country in which the plague is believed to have started

China

By 1300 Europeans were _____ almost all the land they could cultivate.

Farming

As results the kings of Europe consolidate power...it is the beginning of the end of ______.

Feudalism

The decline in food production led to higher prices which led to _______.

Inflation

The plague led to an overwhelming pessimism, to religious fanaticism, to suspicion of travelers, and to intolerance of ____.

Jews

What nursery rhyme was associated with the Black Death?

Ring-A-Ring of Rosies

What was the treatment for headaches?

Rose, Lavender, Sage & Bay

When was the last outbreak of the plague?

The last known case was in Europe 1722

How many forms of the plague were there?

Two

What was the cure for sickness and nausea?

Wormwood, mint & balm