Black Death Definitions

Question 0

Bubonic plague

Answer 0

Commonest form of plague: fever, delirium and buboes formed

Question 1

1348

Answer 1

When plague first struck Europe, when Italian merchants brought disease from Asia

Question 2

Pneumonic plague

Answer 2

One form of plague which centred in lungs - serious lung infection

Question 3

Plague pits

Answer 3

Mass burials Mass graves in which plague victims were buried

Question 4

Flagellants

Answer 4

People who subjected themselves to flogging to punish themselves for their sins which they believed brought on the plague

Question 5

Superstition

Answer 5

Excessively credulous belief in supernatural (irrational)

Question 6

Anti-semitism

Answer 6

Hostility or prejudice against Jews

Question 7

Danse Macabre

Answer 7

‘Dance of death’ - artistic genre about universality of death

Question 8

When plague first struck Europe, when Italian merchants brought disease from Asia

Answer 8

1348

Question 9

Commonest form of plague: fever, delirium and buboes formed

Answer 9

Bubonic plague

Question 10

One form of plague which centred in lungs - serious lung infection

Answer 10

Pneumonic plague

Question 11

Mass burials Mass graves in which plague victims were buried

Answer 11

Plague pits

Question 12

People who subjected themselves to flogging to punish themselves for their sins which they believed brought on the plague

Answer 12

Flagellants

Question 13

Excessively credulous belief in supernatural (irrational)

Answer 13

Superstition

Question 14

Hostility or prejudice against Jews

Answer 14

Anti-semitism

Question 15

‘Dance of death’ - artistic genre about universality of death

Answer 15

Danse Macabre