black death

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

Why did the Bubonic Plague happen?

• Dirty conditions

• Jews & Lepers

• Planets & Stars

• Rotten meat

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

Who got the Black Death?

• Old people

• Rich People

• Anyone

• Nobody

How would a person become infected with the plague?

• By being bitten by a flea that had also bitten an infected rat

• By coming into close contact with Muslim traders

• By being bitten by an infected rat

• By eating food that was tainted with the bacteria

What disease decimated the population of much of Asia and Europe?

• the Adriatic flu

• malaria

• small pox

• the Black Death

The Black Death was also known as the —

• Bubonic plague

• Flu epidemic

• Death epidemic

• Poison of the rats

What were doctors able to do to stop the Black Death?

• They quickly developed medicines to cure people.

• They were able to quarantine people who had symptoms and kept other people from getting it.

• They gave up hope and didn't try anything because the Plague was so deadly.

• They tried all kinds of different cures but were unable to find an effective one.