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Facts about the Black Death
More Facts about the Black Death
After the Black Death
100

The skin ailments common with those who have the Bubonic Plague

What are buboes

100

The origin of the Black Death is blamed on these two animals.

Fleas on rats

100

People began to move out of cities and to the country for this reason during the Black Death

They thought less people would help prevent the spread

100

Peasants and farmers became wealthier after the plague for this reason.

Many workers died, workers were now in high demand, and could now demand higher wages

200

When people in the villages along the Black Sea grew sick, they blamed these people for bringing the sickness.

Merchants or foreigners

200

The people at the time thought the Black Death was caused by one or more of these things.

God's judgement, earthquakes, evil spirits, bad food

200

The sickness is said to have killed one out of how many people

One out of three

200

Noblemen became poorer for this reason

They could not afford to pay the higher wages to the peasants.

300

The attackers got the sickness inside the city of Café by doing this thing.

They threw dead bodies into the city with catapults 

300

Most people who got the plague died within this amount of days.

3 days

300

People believed that you should sleep with your stomach facing which way to prevent yourself from getting sick

Facing down

300

Many country villages were wiped out so people moved to these places

The cities

400

Another name given to the Black Death

The Bubonic Plague

400

People carried these things around their neck to keep the sickness away

Herbs

400

When people became sick in the Middle Ages, doctors used this animal to help with blood letting.

Leaches 

400

These grew up around the abandoned country towns after the Black Death

Forests

500

The trade route often blamed for bringing the Black
Death to Europe. Often talked about in reference to Marco Polo

The Silk Road

500

This happened to the fields during the Black Death because the peasants weren't able to tend to them

The fields were overgrown or grain wasn't harvested

500

During the Black Death, most people believed the sickness was spread through this unpleasant thing.

Through bad smells

500

This nursery rhyme is said to be based off of the Black Death

Ring Around the Rosie