What Made the Black Death So Deadly?

3. What was one of the risks of death from boil-lancing?
5. In October of 1347, 12 ships dropped anchor at a _____ port.
7. Which Italian city saw a death rate of 90%?
8. Rats thrived in the dark and _____ environment of ships.
9. What three things did historical figures believe that the body needed to have in the right balance in order to be healthy? Blood, bile, and _____.
11. The Bubonic Plague wiped out at least a _____ of the European population.
13. Many in the _____ field argue that the urban rat was by far the worst contributor.
15. What type of photography allowed for the discovery of towns abandoned during the Black Death?
20. The bacterium behind the Black Death is highly _____.
21. What did the plague seem to follow that allowed for it to be so wide spread?
23. The Black Death was by all accounts _____ when it first appeared.

1. What medical procedure may have contributed to the death toll of the Black Death?
2. What else was decimated by the disease besides humans?
4. What did someone need to come in physical contact with in order to pass the disease from one person to another?
6. The _____ nodes would begin to swell in those struck by the Black Death.
10. There was no mention of a _____ rat die-off in the days or months preceding the Black Death in Europe.
12. As methods of disease transmission were not well understood at the time, most were helpless to _____ against the disease.
14. Rumors reached Europe that a sickness was first devastating the population of what country?
16. What was discovered in England when the mass graves were exhumed?
17. The Black Death was considered to be one of the greatest _____ in history?
18. What was one area that remained plague-free?
19. What type of fleas and lice did some scientists suggest were the true culprits?
20. What surrounds the newest evidence for the cause of the plague?
22. What was there a shortage of throughout the continent?