"Like Black Smoke" Comprehension Questions

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Eastern Beginnings

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Explanation for plague's spread to villages and towns:

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Disasters drove wild animals into villages and towns; fleas spread the plague to rats.

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Example of cause and effect:

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The disease spread easier when a person's lungs filled with plague bacteria, causing coughing and sneezing.

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Conditions that caused plague spread in winter:

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Unusually wet and mild.

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Deaths from the Plague in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East:

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1/3-1/2 of the population

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Rampage meaning?

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Wild or violent outbreak.

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Where did the Black Death likely start?

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Asia

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How did boats spread the Black Death?

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Traders sold contaminated goods to other cities.

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Cause of the plague in Scotland?

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Soldiers imported from France.

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Bacterium: singular form of bacteria, tiny living things that may cause disease.

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the singular form of bacteria, microscopically small living things that may cause disease