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The Black Death: Symptoms Timeline & Chronology

History
Year 9 / GCSE / Grade 8
6 questions
~12 mins
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A timeline-based worksheet that explores the symptoms of the Black Death, encouraging students to explain, compare, and analyse how symptoms were understood and recorded over time.

Topics covered:

#History
#History
#The Black Death
#Standard
#Timeline & Chronology
#Symptoms
#Describe the symptoms of the Black Death as recorded in historical sources
#Compare different descriptions of symptoms across time periods
#Explain how understanding of symptoms evolved during the Middle Ages and Early Modern period

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The Black Death: Symptoms Timeline & Chronology

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Grade Year 9 / GCSE / Grade 8
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Introduction to Symptoms of the Black Death

Source A: Medieval Observation

'The buboes, or swellings, appear as large, blackish lumps under the skin, often accompanied by fever and chills...' Provenance: Medical treatise from 1350, written by a medieval physician.

1.
Outline the symptoms of the Black Death as described in Source A. (3 marks)
[3 marks]
2.
Compare the symptoms described in Source A with those recorded in a later account from 1600. What differences can you identify? (4 marks)
[4 marks]
B

Timeline of Symptom Descriptions

Source B: 14th Century Record

'The plague causes black swellings and a fever that burns the body...' Provenance: Chronicle from 1348, shortly after the outbreak.

Source C: 17th Century Medical Text

'The symptoms include dark lumps on the skin, fever, vomiting, and sometimes bleeding from the nose and mouth.' Provenance: Medical manual from 1600.

1.
Compare the symptom descriptions in Source B and Source C. What similarities and differences do you see? (4 marks)
[4 marks]
2.
Explain how descriptions of symptoms changed from 1350 to 1600. (3 marks)
[3 marks]
C

Analysis of Symptom Evolution

Source D: Medical Analysis from 1800

'The Black Death initially presented with buboes, but later accounts describe varied symptoms including skin darkening, vomiting, and internal bleeding, showing the progression of medical understanding.' Provenance: Historical medical review published in 1800.

1.
Analyse how the understanding of Black Death symptoms evolved from the 14th to the 19th century based on Source D. (5 marks)
[5 marks]
2.
Compare how the perception of Black Death symptoms changed from the medieval period to the 19th century. (4 marks)
[4 marks]

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