The Black Death Test | Specialized History

Answer: True

In 1347 A.D. a ship returned to Sicily from the Middle East, bringing with it the Black Death. (It had started in Mongolia). Though the worst outbreak was in medieval times, it kept reappearing. Some examples are in London in 1665 and in Marseilles around 1715.

Answer: Bubonic Plague, Pneumonic Plague

At the time it was called the 'great plague' or the 'great pestilence'. The term 'Black Death' was NOT used at the time and appears to date from the 1830s.

Answer: Poland

Amazingly, most of Poland wasn't affected by the 1350 outbreak. Definitely not Italy because that's where the ship landed! Spain and The Holy Roman Empire were close. Poland's isolation meant it didn't get the plague until the 1360s and 1370s.

Answer: Stay away from other people as far as possible and avoid rats

Fleas living on infected rats are what spread the plague, and contact with other people didn't help. If you stayed in bed all day you were more likely to be bitten. At church you were also likely get a flea bite. ( No offence to Christians)

Answer: Mark it with a red cross

They would mark it so others would know not to go in. If you were dead, people wearing bird masks (to protect them from the plague) would throw you on to a cart and then bury you.

Answer: The start of the Little Ice Age

A series of very poor harvests in 1314-17 and cold, wet weather followed by further cooling and famine, are widely thought to have marked the begining of the Little Ice Age. It meant that when the Black Death reached Europe in 1347 much of the population was already physically weakened from undernourishment.

However, black rats (with fleas) multiplied very well in the cold and crowded conditions.

Answer: The Flagellants

The Merry Men are from Robin Hood. The College of Cardinals is the body that elects the Pope. Crusaders were the people who traveled to the Holy Land to win it back from the Muslims. Flagellation, previously practised mainly in private or only on certain types of pilgrimages, became very public and remained popular for the rest of the Middle Ages and beyond.

Answer: Fleas

It was fleas who lived on rats who spread the disease. The fleas got infected, then bit the rats and got them sick, then the fleas bit the people.

Answer: 1347-1349

After beginning in Italy, traders from Venice quickly spread it to southern Germany and Austria. From Genoa it spread to Spain and Marseilles. It continued to spread when it hit Paris in early June, 1348. From there it spread later the same month to England. It finally reached the Low Countries in the summer of 1349.

Answer: 1350s

A good reason it was the worst was because people just threw trash and such out the window and people were just getting used to the Little Ice Age. Thanks for playing and please comment and rate.