Lesson test: What else the routes carried

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What else the routes carried

1.[2p]
Name the bacterium that causes plague. Two words.

CorrectNot quite: Yersinia pestis

2.[3p]
Put these appearances of the second plague pandemic in chronological order.

The Chu valley in Kyrgyzstan
London
Kaffa
Messina

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d, c, a, b

3.[3p]
The Chu valley is about 3,170 km from Kaffa, and the dates are 1339 and 1346. How many kilometres a year is that?

CorrectNot quite: 453

4.[3p]
Why did the plague move so much faster once it reached the Black Sea and the Mediterranean?

A ship carries rats, fleas and infected crew a thousand kilometres in a fortnight with no stops

Correct

Mediterranean populations had no immunity at all

The answer is: A ship carries rats, fleas and infected crew a thousand kilometres in a fortnight with no stops

The pneumonic form only occurs at sea level

The answer is: A ship carries rats, fleas and infected crew a thousand kilometres in a fortnight with no stops

Sea captains concealed outbreaks, so the disease spread unchecked

The answer is: A ship carries rats, fleas and infected crew a thousand kilometres in a fortnight with no stops

5.[2p]
Ancient DNA from plague burials settled the long argument over whether the Black Death was really plague.

True

Correct

False

The answer is: True

6.[3p]
What did the 2022 Kara-Djigach genomes add to the dated tombstones?

They identified the organism exactly and placed the strain immediately ancestral to the Black Death lineages

Correct

They gave the first evidence that an epidemic had occurred there

The answer is: They identified the organism exactly and placed the strain immediately ancestral to the Black Death lineages

They dated the burials, which had been undated

The answer is: They identified the organism exactly and placed the strain immediately ancestral to the Black Death lineages

They proved the community was Christian

The answer is: They identified the organism exactly and placed the strain immediately ancestral to the Black Death lineages

7.[3p]
Which observations made sceptics doubt that the Black Death was plague?

Select all that apply

It spread far faster than modern plague does

Correct

It spread through northern European winters, when rat fleas are inactive

Correct

No chronicler reports mass rat deaths

Correct

The buboes were never described in any source

The answer is: It spread far faster than modern plague does, It spread through northern European winters, when rat fleas are inactive, No chronicler reports mass rat deaths

8.[3p]
What did Mordechai, Eisenberg and colleagues argue about the Justinianic plague in 2019?

That the pathogen is proven but the demographic catastrophe is not, since pollen, coins and papyri show continuity

Correct

That the pathogen was not plague at all

The answer is: That the pathogen is proven but the demographic catastrophe is not, since pollen, coins and papyri show continuity

That the outbreak began in Europe rather than Egypt

The answer is: That the pathogen is proven but the demographic catastrophe is not, since pollen, coins and papyri show continuity

That mortality was even higher than Procopius claimed

The answer is: That the pathogen is proven but the demographic catastrophe is not, since pollen, coins and papyri show continuity

9.[3p]
What is the defensible version of "the Silk Road caused the Black Death"?

The routes were the mechanism of spread rather than the cause of emergence, and the sea did most of the spreading

Correct

The routes had nothing to do with it

The answer is: The routes were the mechanism of spread rather than the cause of emergence, and the sea did most of the spreading

Merchants deliberately carried infected goods westward

The answer is: The routes were the mechanism of spread rather than the cause of emergence, and the sea did most of the spreading

The plague originated in Europe and travelled east along the routes

The answer is: The routes were the mechanism of spread rather than the cause of emergence, and the sea did most of the spreading

1.[2p] Name the bacterium that causes plague. Two words.

2.[3p] Put these appearances of the second plague pandemic in chronological order.

3.[3p] The Chu valley is about 3,170 km from Kaffa, and the dates are 1339 and 1346. How many kilometres a year is that?

4.[3p] Why did the plague move so much faster once it reached the Black Sea and the Mediterranean?

5.[2p] Ancient DNA from plague burials settled the long argument over whether the Black Death was really plague.

6.[3p] What did the 2022 Kara-Djigach genomes add to the dated tombstones?

7.[3p] Which observations made sceptics doubt that the Black Death was plague?

8.[3p] What did Mordechai, Eisenberg and colleagues argue about the Justinianic plague in 2019?

9.[3p] What is the defensible version of "the Silk Road caused the Black Death"?

1.[2p]
Name the bacterium that causes plague. Two words.

2.[3p]
Put these appearances of the second plague pandemic in chronological order.

3.[3p]
The Chu valley is about 3,170 km from Kaffa, and the dates are 1339 and 1346. How many kilometres a year is that?

4.[3p]
Why did the plague move so much faster once it reached the Black Sea and the Mediterranean?

5.[2p]
Ancient DNA from plague burials settled the long argument over whether the Black Death was really plague.

6.[3p]
What did the 2022 Kara-Djigach genomes add to the dated tombstones?

7.[3p]
Which observations made sceptics doubt that the Black Death was plague?

8.[3p]
What did Mordechai, Eisenberg and colleagues argue about the Justinianic plague in 2019?

9.[3p]
What is the defensible version of "the Silk Road caused the Black Death"?