1. What is a pandemic?

2. What empire was affected by the Plague of Justinian?

3. What Greek leader was killed by the Plague of Athens?

4. What disease do scholars believe likely caused the Plague of Athens?

5. What disease caused the Black Death?

6. How was the Black Death transmitted?

7. The Spanish Flu pandemic occurred during what major war?

8. What major pandemic killed around one third of the people in Europe?

9. What disease brought by Europeans is thought to have killed as much as 90% of the natives living in the Americas?

10. Which of the following diseases still kills around 100,000 people each year?