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Black Death

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Caffa   Ancient port city on the Black Sea, believed the port from where the Bubonic Plague that devastated originated. Today, it is called Feodosiya in the Ukraine.  
Plague   A destructive disease causing a high rate of mortality.  
Pestilence   A contagious or infectious disease that is devastating.  
Epidemic   A rapidly spreading outbreak of disease that affects a large portion of the population.  
Bubo   An inflammatory swelling of a lymph gland, especially in the groin.  
Flagellant   A person who whips him/herself to seek penance.  
Anti-Semitism   Hatred, hostility, or discrimination of people of Jewish descent.  
Bubonic Plague   "Black Death"; a deadly disease carried by fleas on rodents that devastated the population of Europe in the mid-14th century.  


   


 

 

 

 

 

 
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