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The actual disease responsible for the Black Plague is which of the following?
Bubonic plague
Cholera
Smallpox
Scarlet fever
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The Black Plague was transmitted primarily through fleas that were attached to what animals as they invaded cities throughout Eurasia?
Squirrels
Gophers
Dogs
Rats
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The Black Plague started in what century whose history it then defined?
The 8th Century
The 10th Century
The 12th Century
The 14th Century
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When the Black Plague first appeared in Europe, most countries called it by what name that's Latin for " The Great Death"?
Magna Mortalitas
Summa Mortum
Pique Cadaveros
Ewe Cadaveri
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Early "scientists" believed in what theory that purported the Black Death was caused by evil air being stirred up by the planet's movement?
Purt Theory
Qliphoth Theory
Miasma Theory
Aether Theory
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The Black Plague is believed to have spread to Europe after a Mongolian army besieged what Genoese trading port in Crimea?
Kaffa
Ctesiphon
Budai
Zarkhov
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What war between England and France was temporarily halted as a result of the Black Plague?
The Seven Years' War
The Thirty Years' War
The Hundred Years' War
The Crimean War
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What Mongolian army partially introduced the Black Plague to Europe as they besieged the city of Kaffa?
The Golden Horde
The Turkish Breach
The Berserkers
The Kite-Domed Army
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What Mongolian leader helmed the Golden Horde and marched them to besiege Kaffa even while the Black Plague ravaged their ranks?
Titor Khan
Janibek Khan
Kublai Khan
Ooglai Khan
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Through which of the following ways did the Golden Horde try to spread the Black Plague inside of Kaffa?
They bled out their infected into a river near Kaffa.
They hid infected bodies in a wooden horse that they presented to Kaffa.
They catapulted infected corpses into Kaffa.
They used large fans to blow cold winds into Kaffa.
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In 1347, the Black Death first reached Europe after Genoese sailors fled Kaffa and landed in what capital of the Byzantine Empire?
Baghdad
Vienna
Bismarck
Constantinople
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What Byzantine Emperor in 1347 became enthralled with documenting the Black Death after it claimed the lives of his son and his subjects?
Jan I
John VI
Jahan II
Jojo XI
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True or False: The Black Plague never reached Moscow because of Russia's cold climate.
True
False
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In 1348, the Black Plague began to ravage the Muslim world as well because it reached what capital of Egypt?
Ptolemais
Damascus
Memphis
Cairo
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Cairo, in 1348 when the city was overrun by plague, was ruled by what empire whose ruler had to flee for his life?
The Mamluk Sultanate
The Umayyad Caliphate
The Kyrg Sultanate
The Joran Caliphate
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The Black Death spread especially quickly through Muslim nations because of what encouraged pilgrimage to Mecca that ended up exposing people from all over the world to the illness?
The Hajj
The Riju
The Mahad
The Uval
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Back in Europe, multiple nations performed mass executions of people with what disease because of the fear that said people were also spreading the Black Death?
The common cold
Leprosy
Polio
Chicken pox
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The word "quarantine" began during the Black Plague because the city-state of Ragusa forced people to remain isolated for forty days before they could enter its gates. Quarantine came from the Italian word meaning which of the following?
Isolation
Ragusa
Forty
Illness
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What religious extremist group emerged during the 14th Century and sought to combat the Black Plague by beating themselves as a sacrifice to appease God?
The Burstoughs
The Moonies
The Enochs
The Flagellants
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The Strasbourg Massacre of 1349 saw extremists murder thousands of members of what religious minority group because of fears that said minority group had caused the plague?
Hindus
Protestants
Calvinists
Jews
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What pope during the start of the Black Plague thankfully condemned Flagellants and antisemitic genocides to try and keep order during that chaotic time?
Peter I
John Paul II
Clement VI
Francis I
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What nonsensical medical treatment of bleeding patients saw an uptick during the Black Plague as physicians became desperate for a cure to the disease?
Ionizing
Humorizing
Binding
Bloodletting
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In 1381, what European country's peasant population revolted against their lords as a protest against the extra work they had to do because of how many people died from the plague?
Spain
England
France
Florence
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What economic system that relied on peasants working their lords' lands began to collapse in much of Europe following the Black Plague?
Feudalism
Jardonism
Traditionalism
Bourdinism
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Many of Europe's Jewish populations fled genocide during the Black Plague and moved to Poland so they could live under the protection of what famous enlightened king?
Wenceslas
Caiaphas
Casimir the Great
Jan Sobieski
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What religious group was widely devastated by the Black Death because many of their cultural leaders preached the illness was God's way of scourging the wicked and summoning the righteous to Heaven?
Jews
Muslims
Hindus
Sikhs
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Historians of the day estimated that what fraction of Europe's population was killed as a result of the Black Death?
2/3
1/20
1/3
3/4
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What other region of the world was so heavily scourged by the Black Death that historians said it also lost 1/3 of its population?
The Middle East
South Africa
North America
East Asia
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True or False: One pseudo-scientific cure that multiple doctors recommended for the Black Plague was rubbing a dead snake on one's sores.
True
False
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What major period of artistic and philosophical revival occurred after the Black Death since people's perspectives on life were forever altered by enduring that devastation?
The Enlightenment
The Renaissance
The Levant
The Springa
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