What disease caused the Black Death in the 14th Century?
Correct answer: Plague
GloatingTreant705
plague is just another name for virulent disease. The question is basically asking "What kind of disease killed all those people?" and providing "disease" as the answer. Bad Question.
whatchu talkin bout
plague is a very vague term. the answer is bubonic plague.
BabiKat
the humans killed themselves when they murdered the cats that once ate the rats that carried the fleas that carried the disease...
Toots
BabiKat, The killing of the cats was by decree of the Pope, I believe it was Pope Gregory, due to concerns about witchcraft. The lack of cats,to control the rats occurred as a result.
Gio
The Black Death was the name given to Bubonic Plague at the time. The plague didn’t cause it, it WAS it !
Timbo
Poor question. That's like asking what was the first automobile and the answer is "car".
AnonymousDog10027
GloatingTreant705, I've always heard it was. particular disease called Bubonic Plague
Player Elf Council
SQinfoNUTS, Ring a ring of roses, a pocketful of posies. Atishoo, atishoo, we all fall down. Tells you what the symptoms were. A rash and sneezing.
Domatronium
johnnyzoom7, i don't think thats a good idea, if we reset then we go back to a more savage and unacepting time, imagine the thousands of years of free thinking people creating and elevating humanity and you wish to just eradicate that. if the plague you wish for came it probably wouldn't wipe away the 'evil' just the hard working people and the impovrished. not the wealthy, or many other evil entities that lurk in the shadows. such a closed minded thought process.
Player #12220447
Player Elf Council, I always thought it was’ ashes, ashes, we all fall down. Ashes referring to funeral pyres. Pocket full of posey was a reference to flowers used to perfume the overwhelming-stench of decomposition.
MeMeMeMeee
Bad question. PLAGUE was the disease?!? There are many forms of plague. The pneumonic plague? Septicemic plague? Plague of locusts? And…. the correct answer BUBONIC plague.
Talia
Plague is not a name of a disease, this question needs to be reworded
Player #134406949
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Duchess
Player #12220447, That's what I was taught too.
Duchess
Player Elf Council, since most couldn't read at the time, alot of lessons were taught by what we dismiss as nursery rhymes. Mary had a Little Lamb is an example of teaching the birth of Christ at a time when Catholics were persecuted.
Ojaswi tyagi
Miss Ma’am, Totally Agree
Ojaswi tyagi
ohffs, you are wrong
Vee
Player #32567393, Follow any myth you choose, all organized religion creates fanatical nuts.
Vee
Player #12220447, it's a wives' tale that this old rhyme refers to the plague. Look it up-- that connection is false.
Sloth Baby
I spelt it wrong LoL
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Silvercat, dum
Bella Williams
BabiKat, that rhyme is good if you were trying to make one
ohffs
poorly worded question
Shay
thiiis is a poorly worded question
Vaneric
GloatingTreant705, that means they don't know what caused the Black Death ☠️ or won't tell 🤔
flr
recent research also indicates that it was spread by lice also.
Arun S
Micheal Crichton's Timeline helped me
Landi
Bubonic plague would be an better answer as plague could be anything like locusts for instance.
Ms Yoon
the answer would be
-the ships came with the rats which carried the bubonic plague
Sallum
The answer is totally wrong. The correct answer should be Bubonic Plague
Miss Ma’am
GloatingTreant705,
Totally agree
Player #66817220
SaltyWinch, the "beaks" on plague doctors' masks were filled with flowers to protect the wearers from the "bad air".
Player #66817220
Player BARTEMAEUS 10, and the subject of the movie "Panic in the Streets".
Player #62752956
GloatingTreant705, while it has a more generic meaning now as a noun and verb, Plague is also specifically an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis.
jhenevie💋
GloatingTreant705, i totally agree. I got it right coz i studied and read nursing like microbiology
Gabriel Eve
This question is an error
cazzy
a type of hemoragic fever
Silvercat
that is not the name of a disease
Player #44405614
also Pneumonic plague
jg
this question is misleading as plague is just another word for disease. the answer should be bubonic plague