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Edgar Allan Poe Facts
Black Death Facts
Edgar Allan Poe Dates
Black Death Dates
100

The percent of Europe's population that was killed.

What is 25-50%?

100

What Poe was known for.

What is poetry?

100

How the Bubonic Plague spread.

What are flea bites?

100

Poe's birthday.

What is January 19, 1809?

200

The amount of Europeans that died in the late 1340's.

What is 25 million?

200

Poe's cousin's age when they married.

What is 13 years old?

200

Swellings on neck, armpits, and groin.

What are buboes?

200

When Poe attended the University of Virginia.

What is 1826?

200
When nearly 25 million Europeans were killed.

What are the late 1340's?

300

The amount of time it would take to die from the Bubonic Plague.

What is 1 week?

300

The school Poe attended.

What is The University of Virginia?
300

The place where the plague originated.

What is Asia?
300
The date of Poe's death.
What is October 7, 1849?
300

The year the Bubonic Plague spread to Europe.

What is 1347?
400

The percent of people who caught the Bubonic Plague and died within 5 days.

What is 50-70%?

400
Poe's biological parents' jobs.

What are stage actors?

400

The societal effects of the plague.

·What is decreased population?
·What is the revolting of serfs?
·What is the leaving of serfs from the manor?
·What is the loss of power from the church?

400

When Poe married Virginia Clemm.

What is 1836?
400
When nearly all of Europe was fighting the Black Death.

What is approx. 1350?

500

The amount of time it took the (fictional) Red Death to kill?

What is 1/2 an hour?

500

Poe's adopted father's company.

What is a tobacco company?

500

Masks with beaks and protective clothing.

What is the plague doctor's clothing?

500

The month of Poe's mother's death.

What is December 1811?

500
The year the plague spread to Prague.

What is 1349?

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