Treating the Black Death
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- In this lesson, we will learn about how Medieval people changed their everyday life to try and prevent the Black Death from infecting them.
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5 Questions
Q1.
What is the definition of quarantine?
Where all people will work together to find the best treatment of a disease.
Where people will visit one another to look after the sick.
Q2.
How many days did the Italians force visitors to stay quarantined on their ships before landing?
10
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Q3.
3, How did the Silk Road transport the Black Death?
Transported the disease from America to Australia.
Transported the disease from China to India.
Q4.
How did the Mongols help spread the Black Death?
By invading Caffa and refusing to quarantine themselves
By invading Caffa and releasing many infected rats into the area.
Q5.
Why did people continue to use public baths once the Black Death hand entered their town/ village?
Fleas can't swim so people wouldn't be able to get infected in the baths..
People thought that washing more frequently would get rid of the disease.
5 Questions
Q1.
In what direction did the Black Death spread across the globe?
From South to North
From West to East
Q2.
How did people in Walsham-le-Willows believe God was connected to the Black Death?
They believed the Black Death was spread through poisonous air.
They thought God created the Black Death to reduce the amount of people on Earth.
Q3.
Why did the Church gain more power as the Black Death spread? (Tick two)
People did not think that the disease would spread within the church.
The Church had scientific knowledge of how to stop the disease.
Q4.
What is the definition miasma?
Miasma is the work given when people confess their sins.
That the Black Death spreads by people touching one another.
Q5.
Why did hardly anyone attend Mansur Shucford's funeral?
He had been a nasty member of the village who charge people lots of money for rent.
He had been a visitor from an infected village.