1. In each box on the following pages fill in the requested information.
(Complete this only after reviewing all the exhibits.)
History Mystery:
The Black Death
INDICTMENT
THE GRAND JURY CHARGES THAT
_____________________________________ (Write what you think spread the disease)
WAS THE CAUSE OF THE SPREAD OF THE MEDIEVAL BLACK DEATH.
WE OFFER THE FOLLOWING EVIDENCE:
(What stations prove your argument? What do they show?
Exhibit _____ shows ____________________
_____________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________
Agent: __________________________ Period: _____
In each box on the following pages fill in the requested information.
Exhibit A – Dossier
What are the three provided options for what caused the Black Death? 1. 2. 3.
Can you think of anything else that might have caused it?
Without seeing all the evidence which theory do you think is correct?
Exhibit B – Disease Descriptions
Read the descriptions of the two diseases.
How are these diseases similar?
How are these diseases different?
Would you say they are more similar or more different? Why?

2. Exhibit C – Plagues in History Exhibit F – Maps
What do the three Plagues described have in common with the Black Death?
What direction did the Black Death spread across Europe?
Based on the map why do you think it spread that direction?
Travel at this time was very slowly. How do you think the disease could have spread so fast?
What do these Plagues prove is the cause of the modern Bubonic Plague?
Exhibit D – The Miasma
Exhibit G – Extermination Poster
Why did Plague doctors wear those strange masks?
What does this poster say about what spread the disease?
How does Ring Around the Rosie apply to the Black Death?
If rats were a problem in town is it a good idea to kill all the cats? Why?
What does it seem the Medieval doctors believed spread the disease?
Exhibit E – Monk Letter
Exhibit H – New Theories (video)
Why does the Monk think God was angry?
Why do some historians think there weren’t many rats in England?
What happened to the Pope?
If there were few rats in England what does that tell you about what the Black Death really was?
Why doesn’t he think bad air spread the disease?