WorksheetsBlack Death
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 15mins
What is the Black Death?
Virus
Strong Common Cold
Infectious Disease
Cut
How did the Black Death get to Europe?
Car and train
Ship and Silk road
Mail and Air
Buggies and Mile runs
How did the Black Death spread?
Bacteria carried by fleas
Jews poisoning drinking water
Lepers open wounds
Position of planets
What was the plagues impact on the population?
Doubled the population
Killed 1/3rd of population
Did not do anything to population
Wiped out Central Asia
What was the shift in power?
From Monarchs to Knights
From Peasants to Monarchs
From Knights to Lords
From Lords to Peasants
How did the Bubonic Plague contibute to the decline of Feudalism?
Killed off everyone in the Feudal system
Gave more power to the clergy allowing them to gain more land and taxes
Desperate need for workers and now workers could demand more rights
Stopped all legal reforms which gave power back to its original owners
Who got the Black Death?
Old people
Rich People
Anyone
Nobody
People didn't understand bacteria yet, so what or who did they blame for the Black Death?
Position of planets
Europeans
Jews
Fish in rivers
In what year did the Black Death begin?
1000
1300
1347
1352
What is the author describing?
The symptoms of the disease
How quickly plague spread through Europe
The social results of the Black Death
Research on the influence of Black Death
The Black Death was also known as the —
Bubonic plague
Flu epidemic
Death epidemic
Poison of the rats
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
What did the scarcity of labor created by the Black Death cause?
economic collapse
a reduction in wages
an increase in wages
dependence on slavery
