The Five Ws and How of the Plague Instructions: Read and mark the text “The Black Plague” Fill out the who, what, when, where, why, and how of the plague. Read and mark the text “Response and Consequences of the Black Plague” Summarize the consequences of the plague in the center column.

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Explanation:

who-China

what-symptoms include headache, chills ,painful lymph nodes and coughing up blood, it wiped out 1/3 of the population.

why-people's skin tissue would turn black, thus making it the black plague.

how- Rats (with fleas)

when- China in the 1300s

where-China

Summary-  In the 1300's China started to get infected with the deadly virus, and because people weren't as sanitary as they are now rats would travel onto cargo and give people fleas that had the black death. Then 1/3 of the population got wiped out.

norsemen from northern countries had made earlier journeys