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1
Q

What types of plague where there?

A

Bubonic ( from fleas ) and pneumonic ( from coughing/sneezing )

2
Q

Symptoms of the bubonic plague?

A

Buboes in the armpit or groin. Buboes are black swellings on the body.

3
Q

Symptoms of the Pneumonic Plague?

A

Affects your lungs, coughing up blood

4
Q

Cures for the plague?

A

Drink vinegar, frog on buboes, eat medicine ( rocks and sticks )

5
Q

How to avoid the plague?

A

Clean up streets, pray to God, quiet life, wild life, avoid moist food, become a flagellant.

6
Q

Plague came to England?

A

1347-48

7
Q

How did people think it was caused?

A

God sent it because of bad people, the planets were in a certain order.

8
Q

How was the plague actually caused?

A

It lived in the stomach of fleas, who lived on rats. When the rats dies the fleas moved onto humans who caught the disease and by trade routes, infected rats and sailors lived on the ships.

9
Q

How did the plague affect the people?

A

Fewer landowners, fewer workers ( wage rates rose or if not the workers could change their employer ), more land for survivors to buy.

10
Q

Where and when did the plague start?

A

Asia 1333