The Black Death- Treatment, Impact and prevention: Medieval England 1250-1500 Ideas about the cause of disease and illness: History: GCSE (9:1)

China

The place from where it is believed the Black Death originated

Rats and Fleas

The believed method of spread according to modern scientists (medieval people did not know this)

1348

The year in which the Black Death reached England

40 percent

The percentage of people believed to have died from the Black Death

Buboes

The boils that a Black Death sufferer experienced when

Bubonic

A type of Black Death resulting in buboes

Pneumonic

A type of Black Death attacking the lungs

Septicemic

A type of Black Death effecting the blood, resulting in almost certain death

Quarantine

A method of stopping the Black Death spreading by isolating a city, town or village

God's punishment

A significant explanation for the Black Death

Flagellants

Groups of people who walked through the street whipping themselves to show remorse to God

Processions

A way of showing forgiveness to God to avoid the Black Death

Lighting candles

A method of prayer

Pilgrimage

Going to a holy place to pray. This supposedly helped to stop the Black Death

Miasma

Bad air that supposedly caused the Black Death

Movement of the Planets

An explanation for why the Black Death appeared

Burning herbs

A method of masking the miasma which supposedly caused the Black Death

Live chicken

Holding a live chicken on a buboe supposedly helped cure the Black Death

Onions

Cut up onions on buboes supposedly helped cure the Black Death