The Black Death

Turn to pages 72-73 in the Atlas of World History . Read the introducation. Use the information to answer the following questions.What goods the northern Europeans Trade?

What trade goods did Europeans get from Asia?

What spread the plague along trade routes to the Mediterranean?

What percentage of people in Europe died from the plague?

Traders in Europe traveled along?

Some cities formed an alliance called:

Look at question B and read it's caption. Why did the plague spread easily in Venice?

Read the history question, "How did the plague change Europe?" and look at graph D, "Europe 800-1500." Use the information to answer the following questions: By how many millions did the population of Europe grow between 800 and the strike of the plague?

Did the larget growth in population occur before of after the barbarian invasions ended? and why do you thnk this was so?

About how many people died from the plague?