Quiz 1 - plague

Question 1

Agimet

Answer 1

A jewish merchant who was tortured into a false confession of poisoning wells with the plague. He was also forced to confess that all other jews were guilty.

Question 2

Black death

Answer 2

yersinia pestis bacteria. the second pandemic of plague. 1347-1830s. Most known pandemic of the plague, bubonic was the main strain though pneumonic and septicemic were likely present. Originated in the Mongol empire. Originated in rats and spread from their infected fleas into humans.

Question 3

Black death in art

Answer 3

paintings such as breugal’s the triumph of death and vincenzos Dance of Death show how widespread death from the plague was, the chaos of it, and the way it affected all classes.

Question 4

Christian response to the plague

Answer 4

many fled, they understood contagion, many become more pious and tried to please god as a response, later blamed jews

Question 5

Control measures during black death

Answer 5

efforts to prevent ‘miasma’ and bad odors such as doctors wearing masks filled with herb. street cleansing with water, ridding community of sin, and increasing piety

Question 6

Decameron

Answer 6

a collection of stories about people from the time of the black death who flea the city into the countryside, shows privilege of the elite

Question 7

Economic effects of the plague

Answer 7

higher demand for workers since less people, wages increased, rent decreased

Question 8

first plague pandemic

Answer 8

plague of justinian, 527-565, bubonic plague

Question 9

Flagellants

Answer 9

a christian extremist group originating in germany, they gathered and travelled in large groups, whipped themselves in public to mimic christ’s suffering and hoped to win god’s favor and end the plague

Question 10

Galen

Answer 10

greek anatomist whose theories formed the basis of European medicine until the renaissance

Question 11

Hippocrates

Answer 11

greek physician who created the idea of the humors. Believed diseases came from natural causes (imbalance of the humors) He also coined the hippocratic oath that is still used today

Question 12

Humors

Answer 12

Four bodily fluids - blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile - believed that disease came when imbalanced

Question 13

Ibn al-Khatib

Answer 13

wrote a treatise on plague that had very rudimentary understandings of contagion

Question 14

Jacquerie

Answer 14

an uprising by French peasants in 1358 protesting heavy taxation, the nobles squashed the rebellion

Question 15

Miasma

Answer 15

corrupted air that causes imbalance of the humors, believed to be the cause of the black death, associated with bad odors

Question 16

Mongol empire

Answer 16

the location of the origin of the black death. the plague could not easily spread within asia because of the more spread out civilizations but spread much easier when it came to europe

Question 17

muslim responses to plague

Answer 17

believed plague to be a martyrdom for believers and a punishment for non-believers. did not believe in contagion. took the isolation tactic and did not flee cities or families from plague

Question 18

petrarch

Answer 18

he wrote personally and emotionally about life during the black death

Question 19

Plague types and causes

Answer 19

bubonic- infected fleas, infects lymph nodes
pneumonic - infection of lungs, person to person
septicemic - toxins in the bloodstream

Question 20

strasbourg persecutions

Answer 20

part of the jewish scapegoat, jews were massacred in blame for causing the plague