The Bubonic Plague

What is the actual name for the Black Plague

• Rodent Plague
• Black Misery 
• My life is over Plague
• Bubonic Plague

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

The Black Plague was thought to be brought to Western Europe through the —

• trade routes

• Crusades

• Mongol invasions

• Viking raids

Because of the Black Death —

• people entered into feudal agreements for protection.

• Africa became the most powerful continent.

• people lost faith in the Church.

• all monarchs of Europe and Asia died.

What was a result of the Black Death of the fourteenth century?

• African populations destroyed from disease

• African culture destroyed from forced slave captures

• war in western Europe

• dramatic shortages of laborers and people throughout Europe

How did life change for surviving peasants and serfs after the plague?

• they began to demand pay for their labor

• they all moved from towns to the country

• they now had to work much longer days

• they rioted and took over the manors

Which of the following best explains why the Black Death spread so quickly throughout Europe?

• doctors ran out of vaccinations for the plague

• doctors ran out of antibiotics for the plague

• doctors had little knowledge of how to cure the disease

• doctors were too sick themselves to help others suffering

What was a major impact of the Black Death?

• the loss of natural resources

• the decline of feudalism

• the increase in population

• the decrease of kings' power

How did the Plague arrive in Italy?

• on trade ships

• on the Silk Road

• on the trans-Saharan trade route

• on camels