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