The Plague
Approximately this many people died during the black death outbreak.
What is 20-25 million?
(Black Plague Museum)
(History's Mystery)
This year saw the height of the bubonic plague epidemic in Europe.
What is 1347?
(Black Plague Museum)
(History's Mystery)
Due to extensive trading, the Chinese Empire ran out of metal to make coins. They invented this as a remedy.
What is paper money?
(Crash Course World History #14)
This document was extra credit (which you could still get btw).
What is Document E?
Our original essential question for this unit.
What is:
Was the time period between 400 AD and 1400 AD a “Dark Age”?
Was this a time of cultural decay and decline?
This nursery rhyme came about due to the plague.
What is Ring Around the Rosie?
(Black Plague Museum)
The Crusades happened during this era and found these two religions at war.
What are the High Middle Ages? What are Christianity (Catholic) and Islam?
These two areas were definitely not in a dark age during the middle ages.
Where are China, the Islamic Empire, Africa, Meso-America (there are arguments for others)?
This document was a chart of the oldest universities still in operation today.
What is Document F?
The middle ages are sandwiched between these two time periods.
What are the Classical (Greece and the Roman Empire) and the Renaissance.
These are three symptoms of the plague.
What are (any of the following three things)
headache, chills and fever, exhaustion, nausea and vomiting, back pain, soreness, sensitivity to light, buboes (swollen, pus-filled, blackened lymph nodes), death (sometimes within four days)
(Black Plague Museum)
What are viking invasions?
(Document A and C)
Arabic numerals and other mathematical innovations came from this empire.
What is the Islamic Empire?
(Crash Course World History #14)
This document mentions specific raids by Northmen.
What is Document C?
Two punishments listed for serfs in the economic laws.
What are hands being chopped off or a public beating?
Followers of this religion were accused of spreading the plague.
What is Judaism?
(History's Mystery)
The middle ages were split into these three eras. Include the dates for each.
What are the Early Middle Ages (500-1000), the High Middle Ages (1000-1300), and the Late Middle Ages1 (1300-1500)?
This replaced Greek as the global standard for trade, philosophy, education, and mathematics.
What is Arabic?
(Crash Course World History #14)
This document detailed the symptoms and the medical treatments of the plague. ALSO name one of the treatments.
What is the Black(Bubonic) Plague Museum?
Answers may vary.
What are barbarian supremacy and intellectual depression?
The plague affected European society in this way.
Answers may vary.
These were three advancements/positive things that happened during the high middle ages.
What are
technological improvements (specifics can get extra points), population increase, stable food supply, available farmlands (Document B)
establishment of universities (Document F)
intricate architecture (Document G)?
List four products that came from China during this time.
What are paper money, porcelain, art, iron, tools, gunpowder, poetry?
These three documents could help you argue that the middle ages (400CE- 1400CE) were NOT a dark age for Europe.
What are Document B, Document F, and Document G? (more may apply)
An appropriate thesis for your essay.
Answers will vary but must have the following:
-Dates
-Place
-the words "Dark Age"