Causes of the Black Death

Describe the causes of the Black Death

How to answer of describe question

When you answer a describe question, you are trying to give information about how or why something happened. You must try to include as much correct information as possible, but you have to be careful to only include facts that answer the question.

Multiple Select

What is a fact? (Click all correct answers)

• Information used as evidence.

• A view or a judgement.

• Something that can be proved.

• The beliefs of a group of people.

Match

Match the following

• A cause of the Black Death was the

• God sent the plague because

• Flagellants spread the Black Death as they

• The Black Death was caused by fleas

• In towns and cities, people lived

position of Saturn, Jupiter and Mars.

people were gambling and fighting.

wandered around, whipping themselves.

carried by rats into towns and cities.

close together which spread the plague.

• position of Saturn, Jupiter and Mars.

• people were gambling and fighting.

• wandered around, whipping themselves.

• carried by rats into towns and cities.

• close together which spread the plague.

Multiple Select

Which of the previous causes were facts?

• The position of the planets.

• Flagellants

• Fleas and rats

• Overcrowding

• God

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helped spread the Black Death. People across Europe and Asia wanted to buy ​

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goods, but as they travelled across the land and sea, they carried the ​

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and rats with them. Every time they stopped in a new ​

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or town, they spread the ​

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further.

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Trade

luxury

fleas

country

plague

Labelling

Label the problems in a medieval town. These problems helped to spread the Black Death.

Drag labels to their correct position on the image

Rats

Overcrowded

Animals in the street

Raw sewage

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The ​

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of bodies was very ​

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and helped to ​

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the disease further, as those who ​

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the dead bodies did not ​

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themselves.

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burial

basic

protect

spread

handled

Think of all the causes of the Black Death we have looked at this morning and then:
Pick one and add it to your point box.
Give an example that helps to explain your point.
Explain why your point was a cause of the Black Death.
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Causes of the Black Death

​Point	​Examples	Explain​
​One cause of the Black Death was...	​An example of this would be...	​Therefore, ... was a cause of the Black Death because...

Now pick a different point and complete the examples and explain points.

Causes of the Black Death

​Point	​Examples	Explain​
​Another cause of the Black Death was...	​	​Therefore, ... caused the Black Death to spread as it...