How It Spread
This type of travel—moving goods and people from town to town—helped the sickness spread quickly.
What is trade?
People with this illness often had a high fever and felt very tired.
What were common signs someone had the Black Death?
Many towns became quieter because so many people stayed inside or left to avoid getting sick.
What happened to towns during the Black Death?
Some people stayed inside their homes because they hoped this would keep them safe.
What is staying away from others?
This was a very serious sickness that spread across Europe in the 1300s.
What is the black death
This small animal often carried the fleas that spread the Black Death.
What is a rat?
One sign of the sickness was swollen, painful bumps on the body.
What were the bumps called that showed someone was sick?
With fewer workers, farms sometimes had trouble growing enough food.
Why did farms struggle during the Black Death?
Many towns closed their markets and shops so fewer people would gather.
What is closing public places?
People called it this name because the sickness caused dark, swollen bumps on the body.
Why was it called the Black Death?
These tiny insects bit people and helped pass the sickness from one place to another.
What are fleas?
People who got the plague sometimes had chills and felt very weak.
How did the Black Death make people feel?
Some shops and markets closed because there weren’t enough people to run them.
Why did many businesses close during the Black Death?
People cleaned their homes and streets because they believed it would help stop sickness.
What is trying to keep things clean?
This word describes the huge number of people who got sick at the same time.
What is an epidemic?
Ships brought this sickness to Europe when sailors and goods carried infected fleas.
How did the Black Death first arrive in Europe?
This sickness spread so quickly that whole families could become ill.
Why did people worry when someone showed signs of the Black Death?
After the sickness passed, workers could ask for better pay because there were fewer people to do the jobs.
How did life change for workers after the Black Death?
Travelers had to wait outside a town for many days before they were allowed in.
What is a quarantine?
This sickness killed millions of people and changed life in Europe for many years.
What did the Black Death do to Europe?
Crowded towns made it easy for the sickness to spread because many people lived close together.
Why did the Black Death spread so fast in cities?
Doctors in medieval times didn’t understand germs, so they couldn’t explain why people got sick.
Why didn’t people know what caused the Black Death?
Families sometimes moved to the countryside because they thought it was safer than crowded cities.
Why did some families leave the cities during the Black Death?
Some people prayed or asked for help because they were scared and didn’t understand the sickness.
What is turning to religion for comfort?
This was the time period when the Black Death first arrived in Europe.
When did the Black Death happen? (Answer: In the 1300s, around 1347.)