The Black Death

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Across
  1. 3. Vehicles that carried infected sailors, rats and goods between ports
  2. 4. Second most common and was spread through the air by the victim’s cough.
  3. 5. Animals that carried the fleas responsible for spreading the disease
  4. 7. Long nose-like part of a plague doctor’s mask filled with strong smells
  5. 8. Movement of goods and merchants that helped the disease travel between cities
  6. 10. Painful swollen lumps that appeared on the bodies of many victims of the Black Death
  7. 11. The most common form of the plague which was caused by fleas on rats.
Down
  1. 1. The rarest and the most deadliest form of the plague, killing 100% of the victims that had it.
  2. 2. Tiny parasites that transmitted the plague bacteria to humans
  3. 3. Signs of illness such as fever, weakness and swollen lumps
  4. 4. The name of the specialist doctor hired by towns to treat plague victims, often wearing protective clothing
  5. 6. Deadly disease that spread across Europe in the 1300s and killed millions of people
  6. 9. Medieval medical theory that claimed health depended on the balance of four bodily fluids