Black Death

Question 1

What is the bacteria called that the rats Carrie?

Answer 1

Yersinia pestis

Question 2

Name both plagues?

Answer 2

Pneumonic

Bubonic

Question 3

Name 2 effects of the plague?

Answer 3

Loss of food

All the priests died so no married couples to have children

Question 4

Name 2 symptons of the pneumonic plague?

Answer 4

Infected lungs

Coughing blood

Question 5

Name two symptons of the bubonic plague?

Answer 5

Coughing blood

Spasms

Question 6

Name two cures of the pneumonic plague

Answer 6

Lock yourself from the world and don’t come out your house

Wear scented masks

Question 7

Name 2 things to stop yourself from getting the Black Death that didn’t work

Answer 7

Strapping a live pigeon to you buboe

Whipping yourself (flagalanti) to tell God to forgive your sins

Question 8

Where did the Black Death start

Answer 8

China

Question 9

What was the mortality rate?

Answer 9

35%-70%

Question 10

The Black Death started in (what date) and ‘ended’ in (what date)

Answer 10

1347 and ended in 1351

Question 11

How did the Black Death come to England?

Answer 11

It came by ships

Question 12

Where did the Black Death first start in England?

Answer 12

In started in Melcombe in Dorset