1. (also known as the Black Plague or the Bubonic Plague)
The Black Death
(also known as the Black Plague
or the Bubonic Plague)

2. Learning Target 7.40
I can describe the economic and social effects of the spread of the Black Death (Bubonic Plague) from Central Asia to China, the Middle East, and Europe, and its impact on the global population.

3. Black Death Sorting Activity
Each statement comes from a primary source (some should look familiar to you).
Taking turns with your partner, quietly read each statement aloud.
Together, decide which category the statement best matches.
Place the statement under the correct heading (economic, social, population).

4. Which Category?
Economic: how people earned money, products made, trade with others, costs of products (anything relating to money)
Social: how people interact with each other, how people are viewed by others (social rank), different classes of people
Population: how many people live in a given area

5. Checking Your Answers
When it took hold in a house it often happened that no one remained who had not died.
Frightened people abandoned the house and fled to another.
Physicians could not be found because they had died like the others.
The beccamorti [gravediggers] who provided their service, were paid such a high price that many were enriched by it.
The things that the sick ate, sweetmeats and sugar, seemed priceless.
Population
Social
Population
Economic
Economic

6. Checking Your Answers
And the neighbors, if there were any, having smelled the stench, placed them in a shroud and sent them for burial.
And it was not just that men and women died, but even sentient animals died.
All the shops were shut, taverns closed; only the apothecaries and the churches remained open.
The rich dressed in modest woolens, those not rich sewed [clothes] in linen.
…they found that among males, females, children and adults, 96,000 died between March and October.
Social
Population
Economic
Social
Population

7. Checking Your Answers
Spice dealers and beccamorti sold biers, burial palls, and cushions at very high prices.
Priests and friars went [to serve] the rich in great multitudes and they were paid such high prices that they all got rich.
And those who were responsible for the dead carried them on their backs in the night in which they died and threw them into the ditch,…
If you went outside, you found almost no one.
Child abandoned the father, husband the wife, wife the husband, one brother the other, one sister the other.
Economic
Economic
Social
Population
Social

8. Learning Target 7.40
Using ALL information learned about the Black Death (textbook passage, Brainpop information, video, song, primary source), write three paragraphs in your LTN that describe the social, economic, and population effects of the disease.