Black Death Revision

How did the Bubonic Plague spread?

• Bad water
• Fleas on rats
• Looking at people
• Alignment of the stars

^{Where did the Black Death technically start?}

• Asia
• Northern Europe 
• Australia 
• Northern Africa

How did the plague affect the Feudal economy of Europe?

• Feudalism remained unchanged
• Feudalism was made stronger
• Labor shortages ended feudalism, serfs and peasants demand higher pay
• Feudalism ended because all peasants died

True or false:  As a result of the plague, some serfs/peasants were able to buy their freedom.

• True
• False

What effect did the plague have on trade?

• Trade increased because more deaths led to lower production of food and products
• Trade increased because people were more willing to travel from city to city
• Trade decreased because cities & villages had surpluses of what they needed
• Trade decreased because of lack of production, and fear of travel/spread of the disease

The plague was a

• epidemic
• pandemic

Because the plague killed so much of Europe's population, it helped bring about the end of _________________.

• bureaucracies
• militarism
• feudalism
• Catholicism

The plague is thought to have started here

• Australia
• Asia
• Africa
• Europe

The plague spread from _______ to ________, and then to ________.

• Cats, fleas, humans
• Rats, fleas, humans
• Fleas, birds, humans
• Humans, fleas, cats

When did the Black Death arrive in Europe?

• 1200
• 1532
• 1347
• 1776