Origins & Spread
The Bubonic Plague first appeared in Europe around this year.
What is 1347?
The large, painful apple shaped swelling that gave the plague its name
What are buboes?
The estimated percentage of Europe’s population that died from the plague.
What is about one-third (33%)?
Many people believed the plague was punishment from this.
What is God?
True or False: The Bubonic Plague still exists today.
what is true?
This group of animals helped spread the plague by carrying fleas.
what is rats and other rodents?
True or False: Medieval doctors understood that germs caused the plague.
what is false?
The plague caused a major shortage of these, leading to higher wages.
what is workers or laborers?
Some blamed this group for spreading the plague by poisoning wells.
Who are the Jews?
people who where in charge of getting rid of the dead often did this
what is become aggressive toward other people because of the sheer amount of dead people they had to see?
The plague originated from this region before spreading to Europe.
what is Central Asia
Modern medicine treats plague infections effectively with these.
What are antibiotics?
Whole towns and villages did this as a result of massive deaths.
what is disappeared or where abandoned?
These traveling groups whipped themselves to atone for sins and seek divine mercy.
Who are the flagellants?
plague doctors started becoming a thing where and when.
what is 17th century Europe?
This major trade route played a key role in spreading the plague across continents.
what is the silk road
A medieval form of curing or making the large swellings the plague caused go away.
what is blood letting or putting leaches on them to suck the blood out of the swellings?
The plague helped create opportunities for this rising social group.
The plague helped create opportunities for this rising social group.
The Church lost influence because its prayers and blessings could not do this.
what is stop the plague?
how ere the dead disposed of
what is thrown into big pits with hundreds of other bodies, until the ground could not hold more then thrown into a river that had been blessed?
The bacteria that caused the plague.
What is Yersinia pestis?
The three main forms of the plague are bubonic, septicemic, and this.
What is pneumonic?
The plague helped end the Middle Ages and begin this era.
What is the Renaissance?
The Bubonic Plague is also known by this more dramatic name.
What is the Black Death?
When and where was the last major outbreak of the Bubonic plague
what is France from 1720 to 1722