1. What do you think all these images have in common?
All the images have to do with the Bubonic Plague. The inflected rat fleas bites it host and then causes the host to get the plague. A symptom of the plague is huge ugly sores on the body.

2. How do you think the chicken guys in this slide are related to the plague?

3. Mask and Beak to protect eyes and help with the bad smell
Mask and Beak to protect eyes and help with the bad smell. Beak was filled with dried flowers and herbs
Hat
What is this?
Long robe to protect doctor from touching infected people
Poker, so they wouldn’t have to touch sores and also for protection
This is the outfit that doctors used to wear when they treated a person with the plague.
Gloves were usually worn so they would not have to touch victims

4. List 6 things you see in this picture
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List 6 things you see in this picture
Death was everywhere, so people put it in their art.

5. “The Triumph of Death” by Peter Bruegel - mid 1500’s ( 15th century)

6. Death was everywhere, so people put it in their art.

7. Why are these people dancing?
What is inside this little building?
Why are these people dancing?
The people that survived during the plague thought they were blessed. They regularly celebrated the fact that they didn’t get the deadly disease. Survival was reason for dancing and singing.

8. There were even nursery rhymes about the plague.

10. Refers to everybody dying.
Ring around the Rosy
Refers to the red rosy sores that people would get all over their bodies.
Posies are flowers. People used to keep flowers in their pockets so they could take them out when they passed dead bodies in the streets to mask the foul odor.
Pocket full of posies
Refers to burning the dead bodies that were lying in the streets - ashes were what was left over.
Ashes, ashes,
we all fall down
Refers to everybody dying.

12. The plague started in Asia and then spread throughout Europe.

13. interactive map of the spread of the plague
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14. EFFECTS OF THE PLAGUE
1/3 of the population of Europe died, approximately 24 to 25 million people.
The economy of Europe came to a halt (stop) because there were fewer workers.
The workers that were left demanded more money and rights. In an indirect way, the plague led to better living conditions for the common people. The people that survived were considered more valuable than before the plague.
So power shifted from the nobles to the common people.
This power shift was one of the reasons for the decline of feudalism in Europe.