The History Channel Presents the PLAGUE VIDEO

The History Channel presents THE PLAGUE VIDEO

NAME: ______

1.  The Black Death of the ‘Middle Ages’ was the biggest biological disaster in the history of ______.

2.  In 1347, who won the Battle of Calais?

3.  Was the religion of a ‘Middle Age’ person important?

4.  What role Guy de Chauliac perform for the Pope Clement?

5.  1347 – Lower Mongolia: By 1347, how many years has the Mongol Empire lasted?

6.  1347 – Genoa, Switzerland: Where Jews treated as equals to Christians?

7.  1347 – Lower Mongolia: What is the greatest killer in the history of mankind?

8.  What city is the end of the Mongol trade routes and the starting point for merchant ship to cities of Italy?

9.  What do the Mongols catapult into the city?

10. What place does the plague first show up in Europe?

11. What where the early symptoms like?

12. Where do the survivors turn?

13. What do the medieval scientists believe caused the plague?

14. What do the common people believe is the cause of the plague?

15. According to the medieval commoner, why is God punishing man?

16. According to modern thinkers, what carried the plague to Europe?

17. What gives the Black Death its name?

18. 2003 – Montpellier, France: Why are researchers exhuming bodies of Black Death victims?

19. 1347 – Avignon, France: What de Chauliac trying to use to solve the plague?

20. 1347 – Messina, Sicily: Has the Black Death swept across the island?

21. 1347 – Venice, Italy: How many Venetians are dying per day?

22. Where does the plague enter France?

23. In Barcelona, Spain what percentage of the population dies?

24. What percentage of Paris will die?

25. 1348 – Cornwall, England: Do the rich gentry leave the cities?

26. 1348 – Siena, Italy: Do Priests continue giving last rights to the dying?

27. Did families continue to take care of their loved ones?

28. By 1348, what brought the Black Death to England?

29. 1348 – London, England: What type of people would carry out the dead?

30. By 1349, how many people died per day in London?

31. What did people believe this to be?

32. 1348 – Avignon, France: Did Guy de Chauliac give up on trying to solve the plague?

33. What did de Chauliac tell the pope to use to prevent the plague?

34. What happened to Princess Joan of England?

35. 1348 – Freiburg, Germany: Why did the ‘flagellants’ whip themselves?

36. Did the organized church leaders support the ‘Flagellants’?

37. 1348 – London, England: Is the plague reaching its apex?

38. 1348 – Pistoia, Italy: To stop the plague towns started to crack down on what?

39. Ordinance number thirty: At the burial of anyone, no ______is to be rung at all!

40. In Germany, what do the ‘Flagellants’ start to attack?

41. 1348 – Avignon, France: What can Pope Clement do to stop the Flagellant movement?

42. 1348 – Genoa, Switzerland: Flagellants and other Christians wrongly blamed what religious group for the start of the plague?

43. What do some Christian leaders do to the merchant, Argamet, (and other Jews) to force false confessions?

44. What happens to thousands of Jews as result?

45. On St. Valentine’s Day, what do the citizens of Strasburg, Germany do to 2,000 Jews?

46. 1349 – Strasburg, Germany: Who do the Christians turn on?

47. What do the Pope and Church do to the Flagellant movement?

48. 1349 – Krakow, Poland: Even after the Flagellant movement broken, do people continue to savagely attack the Jews?

49. What location becomes a safe place for the Jewish people?

50. In the winter of 1349, what peninsula does the plague reach?

51. What percentage of the European population does the scholar in the video believe to be killed?

52. Did Guy de Chauliac survive after he contracted the plague?

53. How many people did the Black Death kill?

54. 1350 – Florence, Italy: While some people’s values and morals broke down, most picked up and got on with the process of ______.

55. Did the people lose faith in God?

56. After plague, was the peace long lived?

57. 1349 – London, England: Did people start to questions the Church’s control on religion?

58. Where did people also start to look for answers?

59. As people died, wages ______. People could also afford to own ______.

60. 1357 – Loire Valley, France: What did the nobles and military men do to towns?

61. 1357 – Rome, Italy: Because of the smaller population, survivors of the plague were forced to come with new ______.

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