2. Victims had headaches, nausea, aching joints, fever of 101-105 degrees, vomiting, and a general feeling of illness. Symptoms took from 1-7 days to appear. The main symptom was enlarged and inflamed lymph nodes (around arm pits, neck and groin).

3. How it was Transmitted

4. The plague spread through trade and armies.

5. Effect on European Civilization

8. The Effect on Music and Art "The Dance of Death" by Hans Holbein the Younger Before the Black Death , music was happy and frequently heard. During the Black Death music was played very grimly or never played at all. The only exceptions were people who decided that since they were going to die anyway, they might as well spend the rest of their life in happiness. The somber change in art and music demonstrated the grim reality of the world around them.

9. Who did the plague attack? Kings, Nobles, Knights, Serfs…EVERYONE!

10. Victims “ate lunch with their friends and dinner with their ancestors in paradise”