The Black Death

2. characteristic of the doctors' mask, supplied with aromatic substance, presumed to act as filter against the smells emanating from the patients
4. Vector of the plague
6. the fleas were carried by____
11. belief or practice considered by non-practitioners to be irrational or supernatural, attributed to fate or magic, perceived supernatural influence, or fear of that which is unknown
12. At least one ________ of Europe's population died from the Black Death
13. social class most affected by the plague
14. social system weakened by the Plague
16. where the plague comes from

1. religious zealots of the Middle Ages who demonstrated their religious fervor and sought atonement for their sins by vigorously whipping themselves in public displays of penance
3. name of the scientist who discoverer of the bacillus responsible for the plague which was later named in his honour: Yersinia pestis.
5. treatment to cure plague nowadays
7. type of plague life-threatening infection of the blood, spread by bites from infected fleas.
8. facilitated the spread moving rats from a part of the world to another
9. symptom of bubonic plague, occurs as painful swellings in the thighs, neck, groin or armpits.
10. suffered mass persecutions and massacres during the Plague, people thought they were responsible of it
15. small single-celled organisms found almost everywhere on Earth and are vital to the planet's ecosystems