Causes & Spread
This trade route helped spread the Black Death from Asia to Europe.
Silk Road?
These painful swellings gave the Bubonic Plague its name.
Buboes
Many people believed the Black Death was sent by God as this.
A punishment
This large group of people died during the Black Death.
The peasants / one-third of the population
The disease known as the Black Death is also called this.
The Bubonic Plague
These animals carried fleas that spread the disease.
Rats
This type of plague affects the lungs and spreads through the air.
Pneumonic Plague
This group of people were wrongly blamed for causing the plague.
The Jewish community
After the plague, workers could demand this because there were fewer labourers.
Higher wages
The word for a disease that spreads quickly across a large area.
A pandemic
Name one way the plague spread between towns or cities.
Trade / Ships / Human Contact
This bacterium caused the Black Death.
Yersinia Pestis
This group punished themselves publicly to try to stop the plague.
The Flagellants
This system began to weaken because of labour shortages.
Feudalism
The word for isolating sick people to stop disease spread.
Quarantine
Explain why trade was important in spreading the plague.
Trade connected distant regions, allowing infected fleas/people to travel
Compare Bubonic and Pneumonic plague (one similarity or difference).
Both are deadly, but pneumonic spreads through air / bubonic through fleas
Explain how religion influenced people’s response to the plague.
People prayed, blamed God, joined flagellants, etc.
Explain one long-term effect of the Black Death on European society.
The decline of feudalism / improved wages / social change
Use “pandemic” in a sentence about the Black Death.
Teacher judges response
Which factor was MOST important in spreading the Black Death? Justify your answer.
Teacher judges (trade, fleas, sanitation, etc.)
Why didn’t medieval doctors understand how to treat the plague?
Lack of scientific knowledge / germ theory not developed?
How did fear influence people’s behaviour during the plague?
Scapegoating, fleeing towns, extreme religious acts
Was the Black Death entirely negative for society? Explain.
Mostly negative but led to some social / economic change
Explain the difference between an epidemic and a pandemic.
Epidemic = local
Pandemic = global