Bubonic Plague DBQ

“ In the year of the Lord 1348 the was a great pestilence in the city of Florence.

This pandemic first appeared in the city-states of Italy and spread across Europe culminating in the deaths of 25,000,000 people. It is now known that the plague originated in China and inner Asia and that one of the reasons it was so devastating was because of the famine that Europe had just started to recover from.It is also now known that the Black Death was the result of the bacteria yerinia pestis, a bacteria that can cause swelling of the lymph glands in the armpits, the groin, and the neck of people infected with the virus. No particular social class station faith or age group escaped the ravages and people became hungry for answers from the Church. This plague was so devastating Europe’s population did not reach its pre-1347 level until the 16th century.

Black death was a bubonic plague, which took the lives of millions of people in the mid 1300s. This plague was caused by a bacterium called Yersinia pestis, which lived in fleas. Therefore, transmitting the bacteria to its rodent hosts every time they would feed. The bacteria then killed the rodents leaving the fleas without hosts to feed on and in result they would feed on the humans. (Bailey 7-12) Most people who were infected would last two to three days before they died, no longer than two to three weeks. The plague moved rapidly, medical researchers believe it could have moved as fast as eight to twelve miles a day. The plague was first encountered in China and it spread through Asia and into Europe in a matter of months. As the plague entered Europe, population began to decrease causing a huge population shortage, which in result affected the Church, society and the economy of the nation. (Hamm 302)

As you may figure viral deadly diseases such as malaria, HIV, and Lung Cancer have killed millions within the years of Human existence, but the one in particular to cause a major impact in the world’s history of sicknesses is The Black Death, formally known as the Bubonic Plague. The Bubonic Plague wasn’t the longest epidemic. The timeline that the disease was present, single handedly slaughtered 25 million people of the vulnerable population in Europe. The childhood nursery rhyme song “Ring around the rosies, pocket full of posies”, discreetly demonstrates the red rash symptomatic of infection and holding flowers under one's nose to combat the smell of sickness and dead bodies.(Ainsworth 64) The symptoms of the disease were airborne and highly contagious and could spread viciously to whomever that came in touching distance of an infected individual. The Black Death put SARS and AIDS in a lower caparison inquiring that they all have caused a death domino effect.(Ainsworth 64) The year of 1333 is when the plague originally geared up into severe sweeps starting in China with the international trading route occurring between constantinople and the mediterranean near the black sea. The living conditions people lived under helped the spread of the disease greatly.

The bubonic plague – also known as the Black Death – is one of the most devastating epidemics that mankind has ever faced. Sweeping through Asia and Europe during the middle part of the 1300’s, it was directly responsible for the deaths of an approximately one third of the population (75 to 200 million people). Although there has never been an outbreak on the same scale as the one that gripped the world during the 1300’s, the bubonic plague is still around today, with an outbreak occurring in late 2013 in a remote village in Madagascar that resulted in the death of 100 people.

The Bubonic Plague is a disease that is caused by a germ called Yersinia pestis. It

I have been set with the task to be able to say what I think is the most important turning point in history in one thousand and five hundred words. I will be discussing the Black Death which is most important in my opinion. Although the British reformations and Industrial Revolutions are also an important turning point, I have ruled it out because I do not think that it is important as these.

Many diseases claim the lives of people every day. The Bubonic plague was a serious epidemic that killed an estimated 25 million people across Europe during the fourteenth century. Not only did the plague create hardships over the country in many areas with the attitude and lifestyle, it also created some good with the economy by creating jobs.

The Bubonic Plague also known as the “Black Death” was the worst disease in history to hit Europe. It was in full swing during the beginning of the 1300’s. The origins of the Plague can be traced back too the Gobi desert of Mongolia. While it was in the desert it did not have a large enough or dense enough population to fully spread. The cause for the sudden surge of infections and deaths has never been fully identified. What historians think happened was that from the Gobi it spread across in every direction due to the trade routes that had been established at the time of the spread. What a lot of people don’t realize is that the first major area affected by the Bubonic Plague was actually China. During the 1330’s the Bubonic Plague surged throughout China. The reason that it spread into the European countries is that Italian merchants regularly made trips to and from China to trade in their unique items. The Plague traveled to Europe as bacteria that resided in the fleas that would ride on top of the rats that would stow away on the trade ships as they made their long treks back to Europe. Once the ships would make port and start to offload their cargo the rats would be able to leave the ship and start traveling through European cities spreading the plague like wildfire because those infected fleas that were hitching rides on their host rats could now travel to humans or to other animals and eventually to humans. So once the flea would leave the rat for another host animal the rat would die and the flea would bring the disease to a new animal. When a flea would find a human to become its new host it would jump on them and bite them. Their bites would mix the bacterium that was harmless to them with the blood of the human host, ...

The questions arose as to where the Black Plague spread from? Do we call this the end of Maynard Evans High? Taken to professional laboratories, all the staff took tests to reveal if they were already diagnosed with the plague after the case was revealed that the janitors had been diagnosed with this. A diagnosis of bubonic plague is often confirmed by looking at a sample of blood under a microscope for evidence of plague bacteria. Investigators, at first, did not know how until it was revealed that the janitors came directly from a trip to Beijing, China, a place already a Black Plague infested territory.

This document will explain how the Christian and Muslim responses were different. In the background essay it says “the plague killed between twenty-five and forty-five percent of the population it encountered.” The bubonic plague played a big role in the fourteenth century.

The Black Plague also known as The Bubonic Plague was a huge widespread plague that went through Asia and Europe. It reached Europe in the late 1340s and then carried on for centuries. It is estimated that 25 million people were dead; one in 5 residents was died. Many people were killed by the plague if not injured and barely living. The Black Plague affected many people.

Diseases like the Bubonic Plague can be very deadly and hurt the society. The Bubonic Plague was a very devastating disease in the mid 1300s. It lasted about 6 or 7 years, and killed nearly 50% of the European population.The disease was believed to have started in China and went down the European trade route. Also one theory is that enemy’s would catapult infected carcasses into other enemies villages. And people in the villages didn’t have anything to stop the disease from spreading so it would wipe out entire villages.(document 1)

The Black Death(Bubonic Plague) began in Central Asia in the 14th century in the mid-1300's. It was said to have lasted over 400 years. Its symptoms were the swelling of the armpits and other areas of the body, mostly the groin and the neck, another symptom would be rings around your cheeks, the main symptom was black patches around the skin caused by bleeding around the buboes(swollen lymph glands). About one fourth of Europe died within a few years after the Plague was introduced to Europe in 1347. Europe wasn't the only place to be hit with the Plague. The Far East was also affected by it to, though not as severe as Europe was. Many scientists and people believe that rats and other rodents brought the epidemic to Europe. Most Epidemics are most likely to occur when rats live closely with humans in areas where there is poverty with poor sanitation and that also share an environment with wild rodents that have plague bacteria. The bubonic Plague eventually came to an end. It ended for many different reasons. Seasonal or weather changes can greatly affect the survival of the rodent host or fleas. Measures were also taken to control rodents and fleas, sanitation measures were also taken along with the use of antibiotics to prevent the disease. When the Bubonic Plague first came to Europe nobody knew what to do. The affects that it had on Europe was tremendous. Entire villages and cities were taken out by the plague.