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1. From your reading, why is the term Black Death now used for the Bubonic Plague?
2. Describe how years of good crops and population growth followed by two years of dismal crops would be a good condition for the plague to attack.
3. How did increased trade lead to the spread of the plague?
4. IMPORTANT-What happened to the worth of the Serfs after the plague decimated much of the population in the country side.
5. How was urine and manure used in efforts to stop the plague
6. How did the above method actually probably help with the spread of the plague?
7. Why would people confess to causing the plague by poisoning wells and what punishment did the Christian majority bestow upon many of the Jewish faith?
8. Give a name that the plague was called during the Middle Ages.
9. How were those that died used as weapons by the Tartars?
10.What percentage died from the Black Death and why would that number be hard to verify?
11.Why did people think changing clothes would make you more likely to get the plague?
12.The plague had 3 forms, depending on how it is caught. If you had to have the plague back in the Middle Ages, which form would you prefer and why?
Bubonic Plague-Most common, often from the bite of fleas or other infected animals. Often thought to be the version of the plague that decimated Europe in the Middle ages that we call The Black Death. Plague enters lymph nodes. Gangrene can set in on the extremities. Not as deadly as the other two versions.
Some claim that this nursery rhyme is from the Black Death. The claim doesn't stand up to scrutiny, but it does make a good story.
1. From your reading, why is the term Black Death now used for the Bubonic Plague?
2. Describe how years of good crops and population growth followed by two years of dismal crops would be a good condition for the plague to attack.
3. How did increased trade lead to the spread of the plague?
4. IMPORTANT-What happened to the worth of the Serfs after the plague decimated much of the population in the country side.
5. How was urine and manure used in efforts to stop the plague
6. How did the above method actually probably help with the spread of the plague?
7. Why would people confess to causing the plague by poisoning wells and what punishment did the Christian majority bestow upon many of the Jewish faith?
8. Give a name that the plague was called during the Middle Ages.
9. How were those that died used as weapons by the Tartars?
10.What percentage died from the Black Death and why would that number be hard to verify?
11.Why did people think changing clothes would make you more likely to get the plague?
12.The plague had 3 forms, depending on how it is caught. If you had to have the plague back in the Middle Ages, which form would you prefer and why?
Bubonic Plague-Most common, often from the bite of fleas or other infected animals. Often thought to be the version of the plague that decimated Europe in the Middle ages that we call The Black Death. Plague enters lymph nodes. Gangrene can set in on the extremities. Not as deadly as the other two versions.
Septicaemia Plague-The infection enters the blood stream. Loss of clotting leads to black splotches on the skin. Death can be within a day.
Pneumonic Plague- The plague enters the lungs. The patients cough up blood. Very deadly, even today. Because this can easily transmit from person to person some argue this was version of the plague we call the Black Death. Read here more about that research on the spread of the Black Death.
Pneumonic Plague- The plague enters the lungs. The patients cough up blood. Very deadly, even today. Because this can easily transmit from person to person some argue this was version of the plague we call the Black Death. Read here more about that research on the spread of the Black Death.
Some claim that this nursery rhyme is from the Black Death. The claim doesn't stand up to scrutiny, but it does make a good story.
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