The Black Death – Flashcards
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What was the black death?
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A plague that came to Europe
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Long was the Black Death in Europe?
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Four years (1347-1351)
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Where did it come from?
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Eastern and Central Asia
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How did it travel to Europe?
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Through trade (Rats traveled in cargo ships)
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What animals/insects carried the plague?
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Flies on Rats
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What was the process in which a person would get infected?
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1. The ships would dock and unload
2. The rats would jump off and enter the city
3. The flies would leave the rats and land on humans (biting them) and then infecting them.
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What was the reason that rats and fleas could thrive?
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The dirty conditions
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People moved outside of the cities and would spread the plague to where?
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The countryside
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The Black Death was sometimes called what?
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Bubonic Plague
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What was the Plague characterized?
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Big black soars all over the persons body
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The Black Death killed about what percentage of the population in Europe?
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One Third
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What was a significant fact about the deaths?
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So many people died that the other people could not bury the dead bodies fast enough.
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What was the result of this?
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Whole villages could be killed by plague. (1000 villages in England alone were abandoned)
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The Black Death started our modern day economic what?
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System and demand for laborers
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What fell apart during the black death?
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The Feudal Manor System
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What were the two major problems for both peasants and nobles?
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Peasants- There were not enough people left to work in the fields
Nobles- They had to work in their own fields (were not used to nor good enough to do that)
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How did the Peasants use that to their advantage?
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They could charge nobles for their services and would only work for the highest wage. (Some could earn enough to buy their own land)
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Did all peasants stay where they originally were from?
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No some moved off the manor system and went to the cities for more work.
