Plague Doctors
These were stuffed in the beaks pointed bird masks worn by plague doctors at the time.
What are herbs and spices/flowers?
This is the origin of the word quarantine and its original mean.
What is quaranta meaning 40 days?
This was the most famous symptom. A painful swollen lump.
This is where it likely began.
Where is Central Asia?
This is the range of people that the Black Death has likely killed.
How much is 25-50 million?
This was the century where the bird mask first appeared, although it was often misattributed to the outbreak during the 14th.
When was the 16th century (second wave in Europe)
This was the name for plague hospitals that were set up outside city walls to contain the disease.
What were Lazarettos
These were some of the first symptoms to appear, just a few days after infection.
What were fever and chills?
This was the main passageway by which it traveled.
What is the Silk Road?
As a result of the black death, this happened to the labor supply and, as a result of that workers were able to demand this.
What is the labor supply decreased, so workers could demand higher wages
Doctors carried wooden cane for this specific reason.
What is to avoid touching bodies that they may have to examine?
These were painted on the houses/doors of people who were already sick to let people know to steer clear.
What were crosses/phrases like lord have mercy
This was the cause of black spots or dark blotches appearing.
What was subcutaneous bleeding?
This is the Sicilian port in Italy where the disease first arrived in Europe via the rats abord a ship.
Where is Messina?
This is the economic and social system that was partially destroyed by this disease.
What is feudalism?
This animal was used to remove blood from individuals believing that it would lead to recovery
What is a leech?
This activity became extremely restricted due to people wanting to contain the spread.
What is trade
This was the timeframe where symptoms typically appeared.
What is 2-6 days
This how fast it was said to have traveled in one day.
How far is 10 miles?
The disease cause a change in this which allows you to move in between social classes.
What is social mobility?
This crystal was sometimes crushed up into food or rubbed on skin of infected individuals as a potential cure.
What are Emeralds?
In Europe the first these were some of the first cities hit and there for the first to try and fail at quarantining.
Where were Venice and Ragusa?
This was the form of plague that affected the lungs.
This is the term for falsely blaming someone for something and was common with Jewish people during the black death.
What is scapegoating?
The Black Death did this to the church's authority over people.
What is decreased it?