The Black Death

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Across
  1. 2. Death A deadly disease that killed millions of people in Europe between 1347 and 1351.
  2. 5. A rich landowner who had power over peasants and villages.
  3. 7. Small insects that lived on rats and spread the disease by biting people.
  4. 8. The big house where the lord lived and ruled over the land.
  5. 9. A poor person who worked on a farm or land owned by a lord.
  6. 11. A river in France that connects Paris to the sea.
  7. 14. plague A type of plague that causes painful swellings (buboes) on the body.
  8. 15. A person who buys and sells goods.
  9. 17. A disease that can spread easily from one person to another.
  10. 19. How a disease moves from one person or place to another.
  11. 20. A disease that spreads quickly and affects many people in one area.
  12. 21. asking God for help
  13. 22. Animals that carried fleas which spread the Black Death.
  14. 24. When germs enter the body and cause illness.
  15. 25. A serious infectious disease that spreads quickly and can cause death.
Down
  1. 1. Something dark, scary, or about death.
  2. 3. cutting the skin to remove blood
  3. 4. people who whipped themselves
  4. 6. An illness that affects the body and can make people sick.
  5. 10. swellings caused by the plague
  6. 12. A place where ships load and unload goods.
  7. 13. A long trade route that connected China to Europe.
  8. 16. A group of people travelling together, often with goods, across land.
  9. 18. making a hole in the skull
  10. 21. A place where ships stop to load and unload goods.
  11. 23. Route The path that ships take across the sea to carry goods.