Causes
This animal helped spread the plague by boarding ships and running around towns.
What are rats?
Painful swollen lumps in the armpits or groin.
What are buboes?
These people 'treated' the Black Death.
Who are Plague Doctors?
This group was blamed for the spread of the Black Death.
Who are Jewish People?
This is the first element on the periodic table.
What is Hydrogen?
This tiny creature actually carried the Black Death and infected people by biting them.
What are fleas?
This symptom caused victims to feel extremely hot.
What is a fever?
Many people prayed because they believed the plague was this.
What is a punishment from God?
Approximately this many people died in Europe because of the Black Death.
What is 25 million people?
This team won the 2025 AFL Grand Final.
Who are the Brisbane Lions?
This major trade route helped spread the plague from Asia to Europe.
What is the Silk Road?
The scepticaemic (blood) variant of the Black Death had this mortality rate.
Jewish people were less likely to contract the plague because they were this.
What is hygienic?
Food became scarce because there were fewer people doing this.
What is farming?
This is the number of bones in the human body.
What is 206?
The theory that the plague was caused by "bad air" is called this.
What is the Miasma theory?
This was the symptom that gave the Black Death its nickname.
What are buboes?
Some people whipped themselves in public as a form of this.
What is flagellation?
This slowed down because people were scared of catching the plague.
What is trade?
In baseball, this is the name of the player who stands between second and third base.
What is a short stop?
The real cause of the Black Death was this type of organism.
What is bacteria?
This was the name of the variant that affected the lungs.
What is pneumonic?
This treatment that is used today was not available in the 1300's
What are antibiotics?
With fewer workers, this happened to wages.
This many TikTok videos are watched every day.
What is 1 million?