Daily Life in the 14th Century
35 (men) and 31 (women)
The number of humours doctors believed to exist in the human body
Four!
The lumps that formed on peoples bodies when they contracted the Black Death
Buboes!
The city where Mongols threw plague ridden bodies over the walls
Kaffa
How many players started with infection cards in our plague simulation
Two
The objects that blocked drains and filled streets in the 14th century
Finish these components of the humours: Black bile, phlegm,...
Yellow bile and Blood
The most familiar and least deadly form of the plague
Bubonic Plague
The mortality rate of the Black Death in Egypt
40%
The substance in the beak of a plague doctors mask to stop the 'bad air'
Sweet smelling herbs (or spices)
The animals scurrying between dead bodies and dirty streets carrying disease
Rats
The profession that performed amputations
Barbers
The bacteria that caused the Black Death
Yersinia pestis
The "gateway to Western Europe" that the Black Death infected in 1347
The city of Messina
The unique way Pope Clement VI stopped himself from being infected in Avignon
Sitting inside a 'ring of fire'
The system that the Black Death helped destroy in Europe
The humour that was connected to winter and old age
Melancholic
The form of plague that immediately enters the bloodstream and kills quickly
Septicemic plague
The religious zealots who carried the Black Death between villages, cities, and continents
Flagellants
The ecliptic coordinate system that we use to determine personality, but in the 14th century was used to decide when to perform surgery
The Zodiac
The farming method that governed daily life for peasants
Subsistence agriculture
The Ancient Greek doctor that pioneered the concept of the four humours
Hippocrates
The substance those in the 14th century believed causes the Black Death
Miasma - a poisonous or noxious cloud of bad air infecting those it touched
The first known epidemic of the bubonic plague
The Plague of Justinian
The teacher who's the best at teaching the Black Death (or best overall)
Mr Britton