Black Death, Chapter 9

Question 1

What time period was the Black Death

Answer 1

1347-1351

Question 2

Where did most people live?

Answer 2

Countryside and Small Cities

Question 3

What system increased the amount of food supply and reproduction?

Answer 3

Three Field System

Question 4

What time period did the population double and what was the consequence?

Answer 4

1000-1300 AD, there was more people then food

Question 5

What time period did the great famine occur?

Answer 5

1315-1317 AD

Question 6

What was the one religion in Europe during this time period?

Answer 6

Catholicism

Question 7

What factors made the European population especially vulnerable to the plague?

Answer 7

Starvation, Bad Health, Overpopulation

Question 8

What is the disease cycle?

Answer 8

Bacteria goes into gut of Flea- goes on back of rat-gut explodes killing rat-disease still there and transfers to humans

Question 9

What are some symptoms of the Plague?

Answer 9

Feel ill, high fever,cramps,nose bleeding,large infection in neck, armpits,groin,lypheniles start to swell

Question 10

What occurs in the nemonic phase

Answer 10

Coughing, sneezing, which leads to spreading

Question 11

What occurs in the systosonic phase

Answer 11

Disease gets in blood and skin turns black and begins to decay

Question 12

Origins of Black Plague?

Answer 12

Black Sea Region. Constantinople- Port Cities of Italy- Carts on Trade Routes to other parts of Europe

Question 13

What areas affected?

Answer 13

Pyrenees Mountains, Alps, Parts of Belgium , and much of Europe

Question 14

What did people believe was the source of the plague?

Answer 14

Poisonous fumes released by earthquakes

Question 15

What were some popular remedies?

Answer 15

Amulets, moderate lifestyle, giving in to passions, leaching, self flagellation

Question 16

What is self flagellation?

Answer 16

Radical church members would beat themselves with shards and whips hoping for divine intervention, eventually outlawed by church because they’re bodies helped spread the disease

Question 17

Explain what anti-semitism is and why it’s important to the Black plague

Answer 17

Extreme discrimination of Jews and people used them as scapegoats for the disease mostly because they were money lenders, a lot of Jews were burned at the stake or drowned

Question 18

What is the best remedy for the Black Plague at this time period?

Answer 18

Flight and seclusion, leave towns with black death

Question 19

What were some cultural influences that occurred because of their black plague

Answer 19

Obsession with death (celebratory), The Decameron,

Question 20

How many died?

Answer 20

25 million, 1/3 of Europe’s population

Question 21

Why did Agriculture decline after the plague

Answer 21

Less workers, less demand for food, wool production happened more often

Question 22

What social group lost more then anyone else?

Answer 22

Nobleman and holders, had more to lose

Question 23

What social consequence in England occurred?

Answer 23

Stature of Laborers

Question 24

What is the Stature of Laborers?

Answer 24

Limited wages and prevented workers from leaving their homes or workplace in hopes of better conditions

Question 25

What social consequence in France occurred?

Answer 25

Taille

Question 26

What is the Taille?

Answer 26

Huge land tax that all common people had to.pay based upon how much land they owned

Question 27

Who are the containers of monarchy? And were they hurt by the Black Plague or grew stronger?

Answer 27

Nobles and Clergy, they were weakened by the Black death

Question 28

Why was urbanization affected after the Black Plague?

Answer 28

Many people’s masters died and were forced to move into citys, increase in demand for artisans (guild)