The Black Death
Society in Crisis
Society Before the Crisis
Causes of the Hundred Years’ War
The Hundred Years’ War
100
This bacterium caused the Black Death.
Yersinia Pestis
100
This term describes blaming a person or group for problems they did not cause.
What is scapegoating
100
This system organized medieval society around land, loyalty, and obligations between lords and vassals.
Fuedalism
100
This year’s Norman Conquest created the situation where English kings held land in France.
1066
100
This English weapon repeatedly devastated French knights in battle.
Longbow
200
The plague spread primarily through these two animals.
Rats & Fleas
200
During the Black Death, Jewish communities were falsely accused of committing this specific act.
Poisoning wells
200
These workers were bound to the land and owed labor and obligations to their lord.
Serfs
200
This valuable French territory ruled by the English king helped create tensions with France.
Duchy of Gascony
200
This 1346 battle showed how disciplined infantry could defeat heavily armored knights.
Crecy
300
This form of the plague infected the lungs and could spread directly through the air between people.
Pneumonic Plague
300
In 1349, this European city saw the massacre of roughly 2,000 Jewish residents.
Strasbourg
300
After the Black Death caused labor shortages, peasants gained this new economic advantage.
What is bargaining power (or the ability to demand higher wages)?
300
This law stated that the French crown could not pass through a woman.
Salic
300
At this 1356 battle, the French king was captured by the English.
Poitiers
400
This theory of disease claimed illness was caused by “bad air.”
Miasma Theory
400
This cultural symbol or artistic theme showed skeletons leading people of every social class to their deaths.
Danse Macabre
400
This social class of merchants and townspeople grew in importance as medieval cities expanded.
bourgeoisie
400
This English king claimed the French throne through his mother in 1328.
Eddie III
400
The last major battle of the war, in 1453
Castillon
500
This percentage range is the commonly accepted estimate of Europe’s population that died during the Black Death.
What is 30-60%
500
Certain groups of religious penitents traveled from town to town whipping themselves to atone for sins during the plague in an action called 'self- [this]'
Flagellation
500
In medieval cities, craftsmen joined these organizations to regulate training, quality of work, and prices.
Guilds
500
This economic region depended heavily on English wool for its textile industry.
Flanders
500
By the end of the war in 1453, England retained only this city in France.
Calais