H2 - The beginnings of change

Question 1

What were the differences between the Plague and The Black Death?

Answer 1

The Plague was 300 years later - during the Renaissance period (1665) / Public notices and rules were put in place to try and stop the spread of the disease / People began to link that in the poorer, dirtier areas people were more likely to get infected than the cleaner areas

Question 2

What were the similarities between the Plague and The Black Death?

Answer 2

They still believed in ‘miasma’, or bad air / People still didn’t really know what caused the disease / They still prayed and held fasts in attempts to appease God’s wrath