Reactions To Black Death Flashcards
Priests urged people to…
Confess there sins
People believed the plague was God
Punishing them
People get rid of ___ blood
Bad
The king order the bishops to arrange
Large processions
The plague hit especially hard in the
Towns
Did the plague spread rapidly?
Yes
The plague traveled 500 miles in
500 days
People blamed earthquakes in distant lands started the plague
True
The plague struck again in
1361-62
The rich moved to the countryside in hope to find
Clean air
Bodies were buried in
Mass graves
How many people died in two years?
3.5 million
Flagellants…
Whipped people so that God would take away the plague
King Edward III wrote to the Mayer ordering him to
Clean up the city
Priests were scared to
Visit the sick
Some people ___ themselves away
Shut
The King and the Government didn’t do much to deal with the crisis
Yrue
People threw bodies into the streets
Yes on some rare occasions
People tied what to them?
Chickens and toads
People tried to restore the balance of the…
4 humours
