Origins & Spread
The Bubonic Plague first appeared in Europe around this year.
What is 1347?
The large, painful swellings 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?
The Bubonic Plague is also known by this more dramatic name.
What is the Black Death?
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 caused a major shortage of these, leading to higher wages.
What are workers or laborers?
Some blamed this group for spreading the plague by poisoning wells.
Who are the Jews?
The plague helped end the Middle Ages and begin this era.
What is the Renaissance?
This group of animals helped spread the plague by carrying fleas.
What are rats?
True or False: Medieval doctors understood that germs caused the plague.
What is False?
The decline of this system began partly because of the labor shortage caused by the plague.
What is feudalism?
These traveling groups whipped themselves to atone for sins and seek divine mercy.
Who are the flagellants?
True or False: The Bubonic Plague still exists today.
What is True?
The plague originated from this region before spreading to Europe.
What is Central Asia (or China)?
A common medieval "treatment" that involved opening buboes or using leeches.
What is bloodletting?
Whole towns and villages did this as a result of massive deaths.
What is disappeared or were abandoned?
The Church lost influence because its prayers and blessings could not do this.
What is stop the plague?
This 17th-century English event was one of the last major outbreaks.
What is the Great Plague of London (1665–1666)?
This major trade route played a key role in spreading the plague across continents.
What is the Silk Road?
Modern medicine treats plague infections effectively with these.
What are antibiotics?
The plague helped create opportunities for this rising social group.
What is the middle class (or merchants)?
The psychological effect on religion where people lost faith in the Church’s power.
What is religious skepticism (or decline in faith)?