| A | B |
| Caffa is the key port in this region | Crimea |
| This town was beseiged by Mongols in 1346 - with terrible results | Caffa |
| Name of the tribe that beseiged Caffa | Kipchals |
| Another name for the Y.Pestis infection | Pasteurella Pestis |
| The historian who thought up the "trade route" theory of the spread of the Black Death | McNeill |
| A drought may have caused a serious ecological imbalance in this part of central Asia | Lake Issyk-kul |
| Merchants from this city inadvertently helped spread the Balck Death to Europe from the Crimea | Genoa |
| The first part of Italy to be infected by the Black Death | Messina |
| This author vividly described the impact of the Black Death on Florence | Petrarch |
| This rodent played a major part in spreading the Black Death | rattus rattus |
| Why do marmots, susliks and squirrels have in common? | They all are animals that burrow and can spread the Black Death |
| He was head of the Church at the time of the Black Death | Pope Clement VI |
| During the height of the Black Death the pope fled for safety to ...? | Avignon |
| This variety of the plague features dark purplish blotches and pus-filled buboes | bubonic plague |
| This variety of the plague features respiratory difficulties | pneumonic plague |
| This variety of the plague is usually 100% fatal within 12 - 24 hours | septicaemic plague |
| In what year did the Black Death attack Western Europe | 1347 |
| The position of sun,stars, moon,planets and earh in was often regarded as a cause of great natural disasters.What is the name given to this idea? | astrological theory |
| Quarantines were first used as a preventive measure in the city of ? | Venice |
| This city used complicated ordinances (rules & regulations) to try to prevent the Black Death from entering the city | Pistoia |