Bubonic Plague

egg-sized swelling or bump that formed on the throat, armpit, or groin of people infected with the plague

• bruise

• bubonic

• buboe

• infliction

Historians belive the plague began in ______________

• China

• India

• Central America

• Central Asia

Symptoms of the plague

• vomiting

• fever

• buboe

• spasms

One impact of the plague

• trade and commerce slowed

• nobles gained great power

• merchants became extremely wealthy

• Rats were hunted to near extinction

Match the following types of plague caused by Yersinia Pestis

• infects lungs, airborne 100% death rate

• Pneumonic

• passed by flea bite. 70-80% death rate

• Bubonic

• passed by infected blood. 90-100% death

• Septicemic

The plague followed this important trade route into Europe.

• Silk Road

• Spice Road

• Salt Road

• Trans-African Trade

What animal both carried and transmitted the plague to the medieval people?

• grey rat

• black rat

• pigs

• flea

This group of people were often persecuted or killed because people blamed them for the plague.

• Christians

• Peasants

• Jews

• Clergy

We believe that the plague killed how much of China's population

• 1/3

• 1/2

• 1/4

• 1/6

Reorder the following to show the spread of the plague.

• Black Sea

• England

• Central Asia

• Ports in Italy

• Mainland of Western Europe