The Black Death

By the spring of _____, the plague struck across the Breadth of southern Europe.

1348

Beginning in the year _____ during _______ times over a ____year period up to ____ million of Europe's ______ million people died. Perhaps the plague itself was brought to Europe by the trader should probably news a catastrophe and evil omens from China.

1348; medieval; 2; 40; 90

By the summer of _____, the city of ______ had succumbed to the plague. In that city alone, each day ____ people would perish

1349; Paris. 800

By the end of the year _____, the plague relented though we did continue to reappear many times throughout the ages, and revisited Europe sporadically for __________.

1350; centuries.

In ______ a French biologist concluded that infected ______ and _____ that fed on them were the primary carriers of the disease. When the black ___ of Europe died of the plague, the fleas went looking for a new source of______, carrying deadly _______ with them.

1896; rodents; fleas; rats; blood; bacteria.

It was thought that people were being punished by an angry ____ for their sins.

God

But the biggest riddle was how the disease reached victims. some believed it was spread through it odor or stench, so they use ________ to keep the air around them smelling good.

perfume

Remedies became more and more bizarre. it was suggested that ________ suck the blood from the buboes, or that hot _______ be placed on them. They carried bouquets of ________ to sniff to keep the bad air away.

pigeons; onions. flowers

symptoms: first they felt a _________ __________, then they ran high ______. As a skin cells died, the body turn black and _____ terribly. some patients died within _____, but most suffered for _____ days

tingling sensation; fevers. smelt. hours; five.

In the city of _______ everyone (living or dead) in the house of an infected person was _______ into the house and left to die. this did seem to lessen the spread of the disease in that city.

Milan; locked/walled.

The disease was first called _______ Death because of the appearance of the affected and later became known as the ________ Plague.

Black; Bubonic

The city of ______, a black tea trading post, lay in the grip of a siege. The attacking army was stricken by the plague, so the commander need a way to get rid of the bodies, so he put them on ________ and threw them into the center of the town the spreading disease to his enemy. The Christians got rid of his many bodies as they could by dumping them into the _____. The Italian survivors gathered their goods and fled _____ to _____, taking the plague with them, thus infecting the people of the entire ______. Upon arrival people began dying within five days.

Caffa; catapults; sea; west ; Italy ; continent

The citizens of ________ locked themselves within city wall in order to try to keep the plague out, but with tragic results. ______ of the city's population of _________ died

London. Half; 50,000.

One of the most visionary physicians later became known as a prophet of the future. ___________ __________ suggested that people breathe ______ _____ and practice moderate __________ and _________.

Michelle Nostradam; fresh air; exercise; bathing.

These ships outside ______ were required to wait in isolation for ___ days before docking, which is an early example of our modern-day ____________. But it was too late, by mid _____, ______ of its citizens were dead

Venice; 40; quarantine. 1349; half.

Today, ___________ are very effective in treating the disease, so although does still exist, it spread is well-controlled.

antibiotics

Medieval thinkers likened the apparent randomness of the disease to attack of _____. so st. ___________, who had been by this weapon, became the _______ saint of those suffering. When those prayers failed, the afflicted began praying to St. ____, a Frenchman who had contracted the disease while nursing plague surfer sufferers, but __________.

arrows. Sebastian; patron. Roc; survived

Scientist theorize that the rats may have traveled in ________ and _____ from the fathers ends of the earth. The bacteria has been traced to _______'s remote _____ Desert where the native people have traditions to protect them from the deadly bacteria .

caravans; ships. China; Gobi.

Physicians wore long _____ to protect their bodies, long _______ to protect their hands, and mask that look like a _____. in the beak they would put _____ to protect them from smell. something even believed that you could catch the disease simply by looking at someone had it for the eyes, so they eyes of the mask were covered with ____ crystal eyepieces. physicians would also Lance the ________, but didn't affect a cure.

gowns; gloves; bird. herbs. red. buboes.

Worse than death. people feared dying without receiving the _____ _______ of the church which would condemn them to purgatory or hell. Pope __________ VI granted remission of ____ to all who suffered so they could receive a Christian ________.

last rights. Clement; sins; burial.

As a black death continued to ravage Europe, it did more than afflict the bodies of its victims. as devastating as the physical effects of the disease was it's evil ______________ impact would see the rise of the _____________, a group of ________ religious fanatics. Their name came from the Latin word for _____. Wearing ______, _________ robes they moved in long processions from village to village. they journey for _____ days at a stretch, one day for each_____ of _______ life on earth. At each village where they stopped, they would perform a bizarre and terrifying ______. They would gather at the center of the town _____ and form a ______, then they'd move around the circle while _______, would fall to the ground and assume the position of their Worst _____. Then the leaders would beat them. They probably did more to spend the disease and stop it because their bloody open wounds were prone to infection. The religious zeal led to hatred and ______. the flagellants blamed the ____ for the disease and in each town they entered, they screamed for their ______. They often ________ down entire Jewish communities.

psychological; Flagellants; violent. whip. black; hooded. 33 and a half; year; Jesus's. Square; circle. chanting; sin. bigotry. Jews; blood. burned.