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BLACK DEATH
After reading the packet answer the following questions in regard to the Bubonic
plague.
1) What year did the. “Black Plague” start and where is it said to have
spread?
2) What animal usually carried the disease and how did they carry it?
3) What are the symptoms of the Black Plague?
4) From the first hand description of the plague from, “Agnolo di Ture” of
Siena, what does he says happens to families when the plague hit?
5) What were some of the supposed cures of the time for the Plague? And
were they effective?
6) What did the scholars commissioned by the Pope find to be the cause of
the Black Plague? And would have you accepted their conclusion?
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7) What were some of the recommended steps they gave to the people to
keep them safe from the disease?
8) What were the, “Flagellants” and what did they do and why
did they do it?
9) What religious group did they single out and why did they attack them?
10) How many people died between 1347 and 1350? What percentage of the
population was it?
11) What reason did the reading give for the, “BLACK DEATH” being the
dividing line between the High Middle Ages and the Late Middle Ages?
12) What were the economic ramifications (effects) of the Plague on Europe’s
work force?
13) Why did the conditions of the workers improve and the standard of living
rise due to the Plague?
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14) What were the effects on schools and church’s throughout Europe?
15) What was the reaction to the plague of many religious followers of the
time?
16) What is “Danse Macabre”? And what was the common
symbolism used throughout it. What did that symbolism?
stand for?
17) Who commission this type of art?
18) What were two of the political effects the plague had on Europe’s
governing nobility?
19) List two of the historical events that were happening at the time of the
plague? And what was the plagues effect on them?
20) What were some of the lasting effects of the, “Black Plague” on European
society?
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Essential Question:
What effects do you think a major pandemic (a major out break of a deadly
disease) would have on our culture, world economy and today?
Compare people’s responses to Black Death to some of the present day
responses to Aids?
How would a major pandemic affect schools, shopping malls, and public places?
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How would your and your families’ habits and life style change?
How can you compare this to what happen Medieval Europe during the Black
Plague? Is their any similarities or differences?