Black+Plague

Plague Journal

 * 1) What is or are the actual cause(s) of the plague? What is the name of the disease agent which causes the plague?
 * 2) What types of plague are there? How are they different?
 * 3) What are the symptoms of having the plague?
 * 4) What are modern treatments for the plague? What medicines are used for treatment? What herbs or other medicines were used in the Middle Ages?
 * 5) How did people during the 1300's react when trying to find the cause of the plague?
 * 6) How was the Black Plague Spread? Why was it so deadly and spread so easily through the population?
 * 7) Describe why or how the plague spread from the port cities of the Mediterranean into the heartland of Europe and even up to England and Ireland.
 * 8) Describe how the plague spread through food webs.
 * 9) Why would the plague spread more quickly in the highly populated cities than in the open country?
 * 10) People who kept their food free of vermin and were extremely cleaned may have had less plague. Why?
 * 11) What was the FUNCTION of the Plague? What was the function it played in the ecosystems in which it was found?
 * 12) How did the plague affect the habitat for human life immediately and then later over the years? Were there positive as well as negative affects?
 * 13) DRAW a sketch of the two types of animals which are involved with carrying plague
 * 14) Cholera was also an important health problem then and still is today. Write down any information you found about it here:
 * 15) How many towns and cities did you visit before contracting the plague?


 * [|History of Western Civilization: The Black Death]
 * [|The Black Death: Bubonic Plague]
 * [|The Black Plague]
 * [|Medieval Sourcebook: Boccaccio: The Decameron -Introduction]
 * [|Discovery Online -- Black Death]
 * [|Jewish History Sourcebook: The Black Death and the Jews]
 * [|Discovery Online -- Black Death]
 * [|A wonderfully informational Plague page by a Timpview High School student]
 * [|Another Good Plague Page]
 * http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/plague.htm
 * http://www.insecta-inspecta.com/fleas/bdeath/
 * http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/previous_seasons/case_plague/index.html
 * http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/plague/
 * http://www.themiddleages.net/plague.html
 * http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/medieval/history/highmiddle/plague.htm