Name ________________________________ Date ___________________ Class _______
Black Death video
Answer the questions below as you watch the video.
1. Write one fact about the Mongols and trading.
2. How do trade routes connect to the plague?
3. The Mongols attacked Caffa in 1347 but had to call off their siege. What did the Mongols do
in order to strike back at the Europeans?
4. List some symptoms of the plague.
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5. Circle the two words that best describe medieval medicine.
REALISTIC
SUPERSTITION
IGNORANCE
6.
a)
b)
c)
In medieval times, bleeding with leeches was designed to
take the plague virus out of victims.
restore balance in the body.
reduce the size of the buboes.
7.
a)
b)
c)
How did common people explain the presence of the plague?
The plague meant that the body was out of balance.
The plague was a naturally occurring disease.
The plague was God’s punishment when the world sinned.
HELPFUL
8. French researchers dug up plague victims in modern times in order to look at the DNA in the
victims’ ___________________________________.
9. By August 1348, __________% of Paris’ population had died.
10. What disadvantage did the poor have when the plague hit a city?
a) They didn’t have very good doctors that could help them.
b) They didn’t realize that they had the plague until it was too late to do anything about it.
c) They couldn’t leave the city and go to a country estate like the rich could.
11. How did people’s approach towards religion change because of the Black Death?
12. By 1348 the Black Death had spread through Europe and millions had died. What new crisis
di d this lead to?
13. Write two facts about the disposal of bodies.
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14. TRUE/FALSE Doctors continued seeing patients who had the plague even though it put
them at greater risk of catching the plague.
15. What did Pope Clement’s doctor use as a preventative measure in the summer of 1348?
16. Write two facts about the flagellants.
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17. Towns tried to get rid of all sin in order to stop the plague. Laws were passed that did not
allow ____________________________________ (two possible answers, but just write one).
18. Write two facts about how Jews were treated during the Black Death.
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19. What happened in Florence, Italy in 1350?
20. The Catholic Church became MORE/LESS dominant after the plague.
21. After the Black Death, medical knowledge became MORE
THEORETICAL
22. Wages
PRACTICAL
ROSE/FELL/STAYED THE SAME
RADICAL.
as people died from the Black Death.
* This represents the concept of _______________________ and ____________________.
As _________________________ decreases. ___________________________ increases.
23. How did the peasant diet change after the plague?
24. The social upheaval of the Black Death led to an increase in individualism and led to the
REFORMATION
RENAISSANCE
FRENCH REVOLUTION.
25. List two places where the microbe that causes the bubonic plague still exists.
a)
b)
We’ll fill in this part at the end of the video.
Because of the Black Death. . .
_______% of Venice’s population died
_______% of Avignon, France’s (where Pope Clement was) population died
_______%-_______% of Europe’s population died
in 1347, _______ people a day died in Venice
in 1349, _______ people a day died in London