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Mead Hall
The End of the World
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What symptoms did the people with the mysterious illness have | They had headaches and fevers, coughed and sneezed, pains in their arms and legs, and swollen lumps under their arms |
| When people in the villages along the Black Sea grew sick, whom did they blame for bringing the sickness | Foreigners or Italian merchants |
| How did the attackers get the sickness inside the city of Caffa | They threw dead bodies into the city with catapults |
| By what name did the people call this terrible, unstoppable sickness | The Black Death |
| Giovanni Boccaccio described the Black Death in his book Decameron. What happened to the pigs he wrote about | They died after sniffing the clothes of a beggar |
| Boccaccio says that people reacted to the plague in two ways, what were the two ways | They shut themselves into their houses and would not come out, or they pretended nothing was wrong |
| What is the real name for the Black Death | The Bubonic Plague |
| Years later, what did scientists determine was the real source of the plague | Fleas on Rats |
| What're some of the reasons that people of the Middle Ages gave for the plague | God's Judgement, Evil Spirits, Bad Food, and Earthquakes |
| What happened to farms during the Black Death | Fields grew weedy, Grain was not harvested, Animals turned wild or died |
| Why did the peasants and farmers become wealthier after the plague | So many peasants died that workers and farmers were able to demand higher wages |
| Why did the Noblemen become poorer after the Plague | They could not afford to have all of their land farmed because the peasants demanded higher wages, resulting in the estates of the Noblemen shrinking |
| Because so many of the country villages were wiped out where did the survivors go to live | The Cities (urbanization) |
| How did the Black Death change the land itself | Forests grew up in fields because there were not enough people to farm the fields |
| What happened to the empty houses in the country | Peasants moved into some of them and became the new owners |
| How did apprenticeship change after the Black Death | An Apprentice did not have to study as long to become a craftsman |
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