THE DISEASE
The name of the plague came from this dark color
what is black?
This major trade route helped carry the plague from Asia to Europe.
What is the Silk Road?
The plague moved from country to country by following these paths used by merchants to move goods.
what is Trade routes (or Silk Roads)?
The plague entered Europe by sea, crossing this body of water.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
The Black Death occurred during this century.
What is the 14th century?
The plague spread mainly by these insects living on rats.
What are fleas?
Ships traveling from this region brought the plague into Europe.
What is the Black Sea?
What common household rodent helped spread the plague because of its fleas?
what is Rats?
The Black Death spread westward beginning from this part of asia
What is Central Asia?
The worst outbreak spanned these approximate years.
What is 1347–1351?
This major continent was hit the hardest by the plague.
what is Europe?
The Black Death began on this continent.
What is Central Asia?
About this many people died from the Black Death?
What is 75–200 million?
The plague ships arrived in places like Sicily after crossing this sea.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
This was one reason medieval people did not understand the cause of the plague.
What is “limited medical knowledge/science”?
What type of organism—bacteria or virus—caused the Black Death?
what is Bacteria?
The Black Death is most commonly associated with this form of the plague, named after the tell-tale swellings it caused.
what is the Bubonic plague?
Many of these struggled to function because so many people died or fled.
What are European towns?
What group of animals helped carry the disease?
what is rats?
About how many people died from the Black Death?
what is 75-200 mil
This bacterium caused the Black Death.
What is Yersinia pestis?
What large continent did the plague probably start in?
what is Asia (or China)?
When many workers died, this happened to wages.
What is “wages rose because workers became scarce”?
What was one major economic effect of the Black Death?
what is Workers became scarce, so wages rose?
What was the black death?
what is deadly disease that killed millions?