junior 6

1. THE BLACK DEATH
By Bauti, Fico and Ticho

2. The Black Death
The plague started in Asia and traveled to Europe. The Black
Death is the name for a terrible disease that spread
throughout Europe from 1347 to 1350. There was no cure for
the disease and it was highly contagious.

3. symptoms
Violent Headache,chills ,Vomiting,Lumps the size of an orange
under the arms and black boils on the body.

4. Treatment
The doctors had many methods of treating the black death but
none of them worked. The methods were to open the lumps up
with a knife then cover it with a warm layer of butter,
onion, and figs to draw out the poison. Another one was to
rub a live frog on the body of the victim.

5. MORTALITY
the Black Death killed approximately
30 to 45 percent of the European
population.

6. Transportation
It got to europe by black rats at ships.

7. timeline
It lasted from 1348 to 1350

8. what they thought?
People thought that the Black death was a punishment from
god.

9. causes
The disease usually came from black rats then they infected
fleas which then jumped into humans ana passed on the
disease.

10. sources
http://www.ducksters.com/history/middle_ages_black_death.php
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks3/history/middle_ages/the_black_death/revision/1/
https://www.dkfindout.com/us/history/black-death/
http://www.historyforkids.net/plague.html
Junior 6 history booklet

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