Bubonic Plague

What were THREE causes for the start of the Bubonic Plague?

• Increased international trade

• Rising population

• Lack of medical knowledge

• Rising rat population

What famous nursery rhyme is about the Bubonic Plague that ravaged EUROPE, AFRICA, AND ASIA?

• Humpty Dumpty

• Ring around the Rosie

• Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

• 3 Little Pigs

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

• bruise

• bubonic

• buboe

• infliction

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

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

Reorder the following to show the spread of the plague.

• Central Asia

• England

• Ports in Italy

• Black Sea

• Mainland of Western Europe

Historians estimate that 24 million Europeans died of the plague - about _____ of the entire population.

• 1/2

• 1/3

• 1/5

• 1/4