Video: “Scourge of the Black Death”
CA Standard: 7.6.7
Black Death Video Qs #2
Name: _____________________________
Date: ______________________
World History
Period: ____________________
1. Tell me how Pope Clement VI survived the Black Death.
2. List one long-term effect of the plague that survivors experienced.
3. List one positive and negative way that people dealt with the Black Death.
4. Who were the Flagellants, and what did they believe in?
5. What bizarre ritual did these Flagellants do to stop the plague?
6. Were they successful?
7. What group did the Flagellants blame for the Black Death?
8. In three years, how much of Europe’s population died?
9. Name the last European city to suffer a Black Death attack.
10. Summarize Alexander Yearson’s theory of how the Black Death started.
11. Name the Chinese desert that scientists found to be home for the Black Death.
Black Death Video Questions #2
12. Why didn’t the people of this desert die of the disease?
13. Today, the Bubonic Plague is treated with what medicine?
14. What nursery rhyme is said to be based on the Black Death?
15. What modern disease could become more devastating than the plague?
16. Summarize the explanation given by the gentleman as to why this modern disease is so dangerous.
Black Death Video Questions #2