What Was the Black Death?
What kind of disease was the Black Death — a cold, a plague, or an allergy?
What is a plague?
What animals carried the fleas that spread the disease?
What are rats?
What did many people wear to cover their faces and avoid “bad air”?
What are masks (or “plague doctor masks”)?
What happened to the population of Europe after the Black Death?
What is it went down a lot?
What popular nursery rhyme is believed to be about the Black Death?
What is “Ring Around the Rosie”?
In what century did the Black Death strike Europe?
What is the 14th century?
The plague first came to Europe by what kind of transportation?
What are ships?
True or False: Doctors in the 1300s knew how to cure the plague.
What is False?
How did the Black Death change the amount of food people could get?
What is there was more food for fewer people?
What color did people’s skin sometimes turn because of the disease?
What is black or dark purple?
What tiny animals carried the plague on their bodies?
What are fleas?
What was one reason the Black Death spread so quickly through cities?
What is poor sanitation or crowded living conditions?
What did some towns do to keep the plague from spreading?
What is close their gates or quarantine people?
What happened to workers’ pay after so many people died?
What is wages went up because workers were needed?
What did plague doctors carry at the end of their long beaked masks?
What are herbs or flowers to block bad smells?
The Black Death was also called the Bubonic Plague. What does “bubonic” refer to?
What are the swollen lumps (buboes) people got on their bodies?
What trade route helped the disease spread from Asia to Europe?
What is the Silk Road?
How did people try to explain the cause of the Black Death?
What is they thought it was a punishment from God or bad air?
How did the Black Death affect people’s faith in the Church?
What is some people lost trust in the Church?
What group of people often helped care for the sick when doctors ran away?
What are priests, monks, or nuns?
About how much of Europe’s population died during the Black Death — one-fourth, one-third, or one-half?
What is about one-third?
Why did people in the Middle Ages not understand how the disease spread?
What is they didn’t know about germs or bacteria?
What class of people often ran away from cities to escape the plague?
What are the rich or nobles?
How long did it take for Europe to recover its population after the plague?
What is about 100 years?
Some people blamed which group unfairly for causing the plague by “poisoning wells”?
What are Jewish people?