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History Skills
100
What type of disease was the Black Death?
A) Virus
B) Bacteria
C) Fungus
D) Parasite
B) Bacterial disease
100
What was the Black Death caused by?
By fleas that travelled on rodents that carried the bacteria Yersinia Pestis
100
In what time period did the Black Death occur?
The 1300's/14th century
100
Which strain of the Black death gives you buboes?
Bubonic
100
Historians believe the Black Death originated in which country?
China
100
“Such was the terror this [the Black Death] caused that seeing it take hold in a household, as soon as it started, nobody remained ... No doctors were to be found, because they were dying like everybody else ... Sons abandoned fathers, husbands wives, wives husbands, one brother the other, one sister the other.”
Excerpt from Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron, written in the 14th century
Is this a primary or secondary source of historical information?
Primary source as it was created at the time of the event.
200
What continents did the Black Death spread through?
Asia, Europe and Africa.
200
Which insects spread the black death?
Fleas
200
Why is it called the "Black Death"?
Because the buboes were often dark purple/black in colour.
200
What was the life expectancy in Medieval Europe?
30-40 years.
200
Which group of people were persecuted (targeted/attack) because they were blamed for the Black Death
Jewish people
200
What does AD stand for and what does it mean?
Anno Domini - "in the year of the Lord"
300
How did the Black Death mostly arrive in Europe?
Through ships/trade routes
300
Name three symptoms of the Black Death. any strain
Vomiting, headaches, delirium, fever, chills, coughing up blood, hemorrhaging, painfully swollen lymph nodes, boils all over the body
300
Most people believed the reason for the plague was ______.
A punishment from God
300
To try to cure the Black Death, some people consumed...
A) Urine
B) Snake venom
C) Dirt
D) Crushed animal bones
A) Urine
300
The Black Death reduced the world’s population by ________________ million people.
90 million (point awarded if you said between 80-100)
300
What centuries are the following years in:
679BCE, 1434CE and 1984CE
7th Century BCE, 15th Century CE, 20th Century CE
400
Feudalism was a social, economic, and political system that emerged in medieval Europe during the Middle Ages. Name the social class that was at the bottom of the hierarchy.
Peasants or serfs
400
What form of the Black Death had the lowest mortality rate?
Bubonic
400
The first ever quarantine law was introduced in which city?
Bonus 100 points if you can identify its modern name.
Ragusa, Italy (now Dubrovnik, Croatia)
400
The Black Death reached England in which year?
1348 CE
400
How many ''humours'' did people in the middle ages believed we had in our bodies
Four
400
The name given to the religious cult shown below, which was active during the Black Death was?
Flagellants
500
Which variant of the plague had the highest mortality rate?
Septicemic plague
500
What is the correct spelling of the scientific name of the bacteria that cause the Black Death.
Yersinia Pestis
500
Explain TWO ways that the Black Death led to the end of feudalism.
Lower population -> peasants could demand higher wages -> class structure was less rigid.
Workers were dying -> women now had to fulfil more roles in society.
500
Name one SHORT-TERM SOCIAL effect of the black death.
- Decrease in population
- Reduced law enforcement
- Increase in crime
- Death of many farmers
500
Name all three strains of the Black Death.
Bubonic, pneumonic, and septicemic
500
What is the study of past human societies through the examination of physical remains, artifacts, and other evidence called?
Archaeology