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What is the black death
A plague / bubonic
The type of sword most famously associated with the samurai
katana
what helped the disease spread faster
rats & fleas
what did the doctors stuff in their masks
herbs , flowers & spices
To slow the spread, authorities in Venice began holding ships for 40 days, a practice known by this term today.
quarantine
the code of honor, loyalty, and martial discipline followed by the samurai
bushido code
Most common visible symptom
boils
Were did it originate
Asia - China
This highly contagious form of the plague infects the lungs, causing coughing and spitting blood
What is pneumonic plague?
what's the name of a samurai who his masterless of wandering and sometimes becoming a mercenary
A ronin
How many people died from the plague
75 - 200 million
The rigid social structure placed them at the bottom, though they controlled the economy.
merchants
This specific Italian port city is where the plague first hit Europe in 1346
Sicily (or Messina)?
though at the very top of society this figure was largely a symbolic religious head who also managed territory during he shogunte
daimyo
The practice, often involving cutting a small opening in a vein, that medieval doctors used to rebalance the "four humours" and treat the plague.
bloodletting
The dominant religion in Japan during the Tokugawa era, coexisting with local beliefs.
buddhism
These religious groups were often used as scapegoats and wrongly accused of poisoning wells to spread the plague.
Who were Jewish communities?
the ritual suicide often performed to avoid capture or to atone for failure as their final act of loyalty in bushido
seppuku
What were the 3 forms of the plague
bubonic, septicemic, pneumonic plague
What's a famous rhyme inspired by the black death
ring-a-ring-a-roses