Die-aries
Dear diary, this animal bit me and gave me the plague.
What is a flea?
It took this many years for the plague to spread across Europe.
What is 4 years?
This economic group gained power due to labor shortages caused by mass deaths.
Who were the peasants?
The location where the plague originated.
This slippery creature was often placed on patients to suck out “bad blood."
What are leeches?
Dear Diary, I can barely bear the pain from these swollen lumps growing under my arms. They say everyone who gets them won’t live long.
What is buboes?
What is the estimated death toll of the Black Death in both Europe and Asia.
45-50 million
This institution lost prestige during the Black Death when its prayers failed to stop the plague and many of its clergy abandoned their duties.
What is the Church?
This trade route unintentionally helped the plague spread throughout Europe.
What is the Silk Road?
Some “healers” recommended drinking crushed jewels, including this bright green gem.
What are emeralds?
Dear Diary, Everyone’s talking about these little balls of herbs and spices we carry in our pockets. They say the awful smell will keep the plague away—though I’m not so sure.
What are Plague Posies?
Facial covering worn by medics that were filled with herbs aimed to help avoid infection.
What are plague doctor masks?
This group was falsely accused of poisoning wells and spreading the plague.
Who are the Jews?
✨Double Jeopardy✨
Genoese merchant ships arrived here, bringing the black death to Europe.
Where is Sicily?
Believing in its medicinal power, people bathed in or drank this fluid, and collectors of it were well paid by doctors seeking a “clean” supply.
What is urine?
✨Double Jeopardy✨
Dear diary, I breathed some bad, smelly air today and fear I have the plague.
What is Miasma?
This eerie children’s rhyme is often associated with the symptoms of the Black Death.
What is Ring Around the Rosies?
Nobles resistance to this led to Peasant revolts in France, Italy, Belgium and England.
What are higher wages?
The location where the Bubonic Plague entered England.
What is Weymouth?
This creature’s horn powder, believed to cure many ailments including the plague, was highly prized and supposedly could only be obtained by a young virgin maiden.
What is a Unicorn?
Dear diary, I have contracted the plague from this specific type of bacteria.
Yersinia Pestis
This bizarre practice involved people whipping themselves in public, hoping to atone for sins and stop the plague.
What is Flagellation?
This conflict was halted do to the arrival of the Black Death arriving in England.
What is the Hundred Years War?
This was used as ammunition by the Mongols during the attack on Kaffa.
What are Bubonic Plague corpses?
This bizarre “cure” involved tying a live version of this animal to the sores, hoping it would draw out the plague from the patient’s body.
What is a plucked chicken? (Vicary Method)