Warm Up The people in your city are getting sick. You see that some of the people in your city have a lot of black spots. What do you think this is? Agenda Video Notes Exit Quiz
Dec 31, 2015
Warm Up
The people in your city are getting sick. You see that some of the people in your city have a lot of black spots. What do you think this is?
Agenda Video Notes Exit Quiz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IjhQDnoCcY – stop at 1:04
QuestionsWhat was one method used to kill those
affected?What kind of affect do you think the Black
Death had on culture, economy, and politics?
The Black Death
The Black Death was also known as the bubonic plague.
The Bubonic plague was a contagious epidemic disease that was transmitted by fleas on rats.
Symptoms
This disease was very fatal.
The symptoms included chills, fever, vomiting, diarrhea, and the formation of buboes.
Effects
EconomyMany financial businesses disrupted
because their owners were dying.The labor shortage was extremely
severe.Entire families were dying out and their
possessions were left with no heirs.
Effects
CultureProfessors and teachers were dying.
Therefore, schools and universities closed and people stopped receiving education.
Priests and bishops were also dying and churches were abandoned.
Effects
PoliticsCity councils were ravaged.Local nobles and their families were
wiped out.Courts closed down and therefore wills
could not be probated.
Exit Quiz: Question 1
1) The Black Death is also known as the __________________.A. Bubonic PlagueB. Fatal PlagueC. Barbonic PlagueD. Rats Plague
Exit Quiz: Question 2
2) All of these are systems of the Black death EXCEPT:A. ChillsB. Ear AcheC. FeverD. Vomiting
Exit Quiz: Question 3
3) One out of every _________ people died during the Bubonic Plague.A. fiveB. fourC. threeD. two
Exit Quiz: Question 4
4) During the Bubonic Plague entire families died out and their possessions were left with no ____________.A. heirs B. hopeC. housesD. cleanliness