The Black Death

Question 1

What is the Black Death?

Answer 1

The Black Death is a plague or disease that decimated large populations around he worlds between the 1330s and 1350s. The afflicted would have fever, gangrene, chills, cramps, seizures and buboes. Most people who contracted the plague died within days.

Question 2

What is the official name for the Black Death?

Answer 2

The Bubonic Plague.

Question 3

What are the symptoms of the Bubonic Plague.

Answer 3

Symptoms include: fever, gangrene, chills, cramps, seizures, buboes.

Question 4

How did the Bubonic plague travel to Europe?

Answer 4

It was carried by fleas that on rodents on ships travelling the trade routes.

Question 5

Where is it believed that the Black Death originated?

Answer 5

China.

Question 6

How many people did the plague kill?

Answer 6

25-200 million people across three continents. Death rates were approximately one- third of the population in the middle east and nearly half the population in Europe