Disease Basics
This is the modern name for the disease known as the Black Death.
👉 What is the Bubonic Plague?
The Bubonic Plague began spreading in this region of Asia.
👉 What is Central Asia?
This group was often blamed and persecuted for the Black Death.
👉 Who are Jewish people?
About this percentage of Europe’s population died from the Black Death.
👉 What is 40 percent?
This social class became more powerful after the Black Death.
👉 What is the merchant class?
An organism that transmits disease from one life form to another is called this.
👉 What is a vector? (accept: flea)
This sea helped spread the plague through trade routes.
👉 What is the Black Sea?
According to Agnolo Di Tura, people believed the plague spread by this method.
👉 What is inhaling the same air or looking at victims?
Labor shortages caused workers to demand this.
👉 What are higher wages?
Merchants relied on these institutions for financial support.
👉 What are banks?
A disease that spreads across countries or continents and causes massive death is called this.
👉 What is a pandemic?
The plague moved in this general direction across Europe.
👉 What is east to west?
Many bodies were buried in these due to the overwhelming number of deaths.
👉 What are mass graves or pits?
Many rural workers moved to these places for jobs.
👉 What are towns and cities?
Name one agricultural improvement after the plague.
👉 What is an improved plow / better crop management / steel tools?
The Bubonic Plague was caused by this type of organism.
👉 What is a bacterium?
Put the transmission path in order: Flea, bacterium, human rat
👉 What is bacterium → flea → rat → human?
Fear and confusion caused people to look for someone to blame during this crisis.
👉 Who were minority groups? (accept Jewish people)
Landowners began growing crops that required this.
👉 What is less labor?
Cities and towns became this after the plague.
👉 What is more important?
People in the Middle Ages often misunderstood how the Bubonic Plague spread. Name ways they misunderstood.
Breathe it or look at it
This European country was one of the first hit after the plague reached Europe.
👉 What is Italy?
This social system began to weaken as a result of the plague.
👉 What is feudalism?
Workers gained more power in society.
What were labor shortages?
The changes after the Black Death helped lead to this type of economy.
👉 What is a modern economy?