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Lesson Objective: Students will examine the impact of the Bubonic Plague during the Middle Ages and it's devastation on Europe and its economy.
Essential Question: How did the bubonic plague affected Europe and the European economy during the 1300s? How did residents respond to the widespread, deadly illness?
Watch the following video and write three facts that you have learned. Be prepared to discuss.
http://portal.achieve3000.com/kb/lesson/?lid=15717&step=11&c=65&asn=
Due to the high mortality rate, the population in medieval Europe plummeted. This produced a change in demographics and forced people to come up with new ways of cooperating with one another and organizing work and social life. After the population crashed, the demand for labor was high, so people who survived the Black Death were sometimes better off than they had been before the pandemic.
What do you think the devastation caused by the disease during the 1300s, including how it affected Europe and its economy?
With your group discuss how diseases originate and spread? Be prepared to report out to the class.
Lesson Vocabulary
medieval: having to do with the time in European history from about 500 CE to about 1350 CE
feudal system: the way society was structured in medieval Europe. Military, social, and political customs all followed this system, in which land was exchanged for work.
bubonic plague: a disease often spread by rats; a very serious version of the disease killed millions of people in the Middle Ages
pandemic: an epidemic occurring over a wide geographic area and affecting an exceptionally high proportion of the population
impact: to affect
variant: a form of something that differs in some respect from other forms of the same thing
antibiotic: a medicine that kills germs called bacteria
Bubonic plague, or the "Black Death," is a disease that killed one-third of the population of Europe in the 1300s. In the mid-fourteenth century, the disease arrived from Central Asia to afflict Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. Carried by infected fleas that infested black rats, clothing, bedding, or human hair, the plague spread along the great trade routes to Constantinople and then to Europe, where claimed the lives of millions of Europeans. It's path was the major sea trade routes and the cities that were affected by the Black Death as well as the cities that were spared or partially spared. The plague first appeared in European and Middle Eastern ports. It then moved quickly along rivers and roads into towns and cities, progressing more slowly into inland areas.
The cause of the bubonic plague was unknown at the time and there was no known treatment, so people often died within a few days of contracting the disease. This meant that plague outbreaks contributed to massive panic wherever they appeared. In addition, the plague had huge effects on the development of modern civilization.
http://www.brainpop.com/socialstudies/worldhistory/blackdeath/preview.weml
http://portal.achieve3000.com/kb/lesson/?lid=15717&step=10&c=65&asn=1
http://www.history.com/topics/black-death
Watch the BrainPop and take notes for the quiz to follow.
Time permitted role play activity