Trade
Impacts of Europe
Misc.
Origins and Spread
The Plague Itself
100
What is considered the Ship of the Desert?
Camel
100
About this fraction of Europe's population died.
1/3 to 1/2 (~25 million)
100
This Venetian traveler described his journeys across Asia
Marco Polo.
100
This major trade route carried both goods and disease.
The Silk Road
100
The plague was spread from rodents to human mainly by this insect?
The Flea
200
Why did Pax Mongolica promote the spread of the plague?
safer trade and travel
200
European art after the plague often focused on this theme.
What is death and mortality
200
What group of people tended to be the scapegoat for causing the plague and were strongly persecuted.
The Jews (Due to cultural practices of cleanliness)
200
The Plague most likely began in this region.
Central Asia
200
Victims Usually survived how many days after Symptoms began?
1-5 Days
300
This West African Kingdom traded gold and salt across the Sahara
Mali
300
These religious groups beat themselves to atone for sins during the plague.
flagellants
300
What was the life expectancy of a priest during this time?
3 weeks, (priests and clergy were dying as often as everyone else, making people lose faith in the Catholic church as they were not getting special protection from God.)
300
Mongol forces intentionally spread the plague during a siege by doing this.
Catapulting infected corpses over the walls.
300
Yersinia Pestis is?
The Bacteria that Caused the Black Death
400
This wealthy West African ruler's pilgrimage to Mecca in the 1320s spread Mali's fame.
Mansa Musa
400
The Black Death helped start this cultural rebirth in Europe.
The Renaissance
400
Due to a decline in the labor force, workers demanded higher wages and ultimately led to them being able to
Buy Land
400
The Plague first entered Europe after Italian sailors fled this city on the Black Sea and returned to ports in the Mediterranean.
Kaffa (Crimea)
400
The Plague reached Europe in what year?
1347
500
What Italian city-state profited most from Afro-Eurasian trade
Venice (or Genoa)
500
Labor shortages after the plague weakened this social system.
feudalism
500
This Pope was accused of corruption for trying to protect himself from the plague. Many common people considered him to be the reason for the Plague.
Pope Clement VI
500
This environmental factor in Central Asia influenced plague outbreaks due to dispersing rodent Populations.
Natural Disasters (A bunch of natural disasters took place and it is thought that it displaced many plague carrying rodents.)
500
This body system was most affected by the plague.
The Lymphatic system