Origins/Spread
The year the Black Death arrived in Europe
What is 1347?
Other symptom/s common among Black Death victims
What is fever?
True/False: Doctors understood the true cause of the Black Death
What is false?
What is a shortage?
True/False: The Black Death led to improvements in Public Health
What is true?
The animal mainly responsible for spreading the plague
What is the rat?
A common visible symptom of the plague
What is buboes?
A "cure" to avoid getting the Plague
What is bloodletting or smelling herbs?
Wages for workers did what during the Black Death
What is increased?
This religious institution weakened after the Black Death as people started doubting it
What is the Church?
This continent originated the Black Death before spreading to Europe
What is Asia?
People’s skin turned this colour when they were infected by the plague
What is Black and/or Purple?
People believed this to be the cause of the Plague besides disease
This social class benefited from the labour shortage
What is peasants?
After the Black Death, cities introduced a new policy of keeping sick people isolated, this is called
What is quarantine?
This Italian port city is where the Plague entered Europe
What is Messina?
The percentage of Europe’s population that's estimated to have died from the plague
What is 30%-60%?
What is Italy?
Due to many deaths, the price of land...
What is decreased?
This major movement in history was partly inspired by the social changes after the Black Death
What is the Renaissance
This famous trade route, connecting Europe and Asia helped spread the Black Plague
What is the Silk Road?
Name the bacterium that caused the Black Death.
What is Yersinia Pestis?
The plague mask had this distinguishable feature
What is a beak?
This system was effected in the long term by the Black Death
What is the Feudal System?
This Nursery Rhyme references the Black Death
What is Ring a Ring a Rosy?