The black plague was one of the most disastrous epidemics in the world. People say it originated in china or somewhere in central america but was carried to europe by rats and fleas. Around 30 million people lost their lives due to this disease. The majority of the disease went away after a big fire in london killing off the rats and fleas. It was around from 1346-53 supposedly. Many people thought the black death was a punishment from God for them not obeying the commandments so they had to sacrifice their lives. The black plague did not really affect north america. The Black Plague Was A Huge Disease that spread over Europe. According to the text “The so-called Black Death arrived in Britain from central Asia in the autumn of 1348. Believed to be bubonic plague, spread by infected fleas carried on rats, the disease swept through Europe over the better part …show more content…
According to the source “The approaching winter halted the spread of the disease as the weather took its toll on the rats and fleas. However, though the worst had passed by the end of 1665, the end of the plague as a major killer only occurred with the Great Fire of London – the city's second tragedy in two year.” In my opinion I don’t believe the plague is 100 percent gone. It is still some cases here and there with people having it but our healthcare is way better now and we can treat it. Another source says “When fleas jump species to the second rodent, usually the black rat, the second host eventually dies, causing the fleas to move to other hosts including humans. Eventually, the rat population was dead, as well as a significant amount of human hosts. This caused the disease to flare out, and it couldn’t spread until the rat population in Europe had recovered.” This shows that they believe it wasnt the fire that ended the disease. They believe that the rats had all died out and the fleas did not have a second host to hop on and therefore could not keep the disease
In 1347, Europe began to perceive what the Plague had in store. Terrible outcomes arose when the citizens caught the Plague from fleas. The transfer of fleas to humans caused the outbreak of the Black Death. Infections that rodents caught were passed on to fleas, which would find a host to bite, spreading the terrible disease (“Plague the Black Death” n.pag.). When Genoese ships arrived back to Europe from China, with dead sailors and...
The Black Death, also known as the Black Plague and Bubonic Plague, was a catastrophic plague that started out in Asia and began to spread into Europe. In the span of three years, the Black Death killed about one third of all the people in Europe. The plague started out in the Gobi Dessert in Mongolia during the 1320’s. From the desert the plague began to spread outwards in all directions. China was among the first to suffer from the plague in the early 1330s before the plague hit Europe.
The bubonic plague in the 14th century was known to be one of the most horrendous events that took place in Europe. A common name for this time period was the ‘Black Death’, however this term was not coined until the 17th century. The Black Death claimed an estimated 75 to 200 million people’s lives in all of Europe.
The Black Death, better known as the Bubonic Plague, greatly decimated the population of Europe during the Middle Ages. The Black Death was spread through fleas on rats brought in by trade ships. Because trade was so heavy among various parts of Europe, the plague spread quickly and was almost always fatal to the victim. The Black Death spread so quickly that few places had any time to prepare or any knowledge of how to prevent the it. However, certain measures could have been taken to keep the plague from spreading to certain towns.
The Black Death was an infectious disease that spread through medieval Europe and Asia. In medieval times from the 5th to the 15 century, most cities did not have a board of health so the streets were filled with garbage, waste and sewage. People lived in close, cramped houses surrounded by dirt roads. There were no hospitals, the old and sickly were brought into wooden huts with no doctors or medicine or anything. When the Black Death hit it was a catastrophe. People had never seen anything like it. People went delirious and within 8 days they were dead. In some towns more than half the people were killed. It was estimated that anywhere between 30 and 60 percent of the population died. Over 75 million people were killed in all. There are many causes and lasting effects of the Black Death, one of the causes was the fleas. Some lasting effects were new inventions and it took Europe out of the middle ages.
The Bubonic Plague or "Black Death" began in China but soon after spread to Europe during the 1330's. This was a very terrifying time for the Europeans mostly because they did not understand what was causing them to become sick. The plague caused many odd things to happen to the citizens infected, for example, it caused the groin area and the armpits to swell in both men and women.The body would then become covered in black spots on the arms, thighs, and other various parts of the body; this later would result into death. The thing about this disease that made everyone so fearful of being contaminated is the fact that there was no cure for the people affected by the Black Death, so they just withered away as the Plague took over their entire body (Document: 2).
The Black Death had a huge impact on Europe in the fourteenth century. Many deaths occurred in just five years twenty five and forty five percent of populations were taken away by the deadly plague. The Black Death was not just one bacterial strain that made up the plague it was a combination of three bacterial strains from three plagues the three bacterial strains are bubonic, pneumonic, and septicemic…(the DBQ Project Page 151). The plague began in China and the plague started to spread throughout Asia and Europe. This plague was dangerous and it shows that through how many people it killed. The people of
Between 1346 and 1353, the Bubonic Plague spread across Europe. The Bubonic Plague was caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis that was spread by wild rodents that lived in big numbers and density. This disease resulted in the deaths of millions of people, quickly earning the name, the Black Death. Millions of people from Italy, France, Spain, and England died before the plague reached Europe. Medieval culture, economy, and society were all transformed by the Black Death.
The Black Death is estimated to have been arisen in the dry plains of Central Asia, whereupon it had spread along the Silk Road, getting to Crimea in 1346. From Crimea, it was caught by Oriental rat fleas which had been living on black rats that regularly went on merchant ships. Spreading through Europe and the Mediterranean, the Black Death has been estimated to have infected and killed about 30-60% of Europe’s population. The Black Death had made the world population go down from 450 million all the way down to 350 million thro...
The Bubonic Plague DBQ Sweeping through Western Europe during the fourteenth century, the Bubonic Plague wiped out nearly one third of the population and did not regard: status, age or even gender. All of this occurred as a result of a single fleabite. Bubonic Plague also known as Black Death started in Asia and traveled to Europe by ships. The Plague was thought to be spread by the dominating empire during this time, the Mongolian Empire, along the Silk Road. The Bubonic Plague was an infectious disease spread by fleas living on rats, which can be easily, be attached to traveler to be later spread to a city
During the 14th century most of Europe was struck by a devastating disease called the Black Death, or bubonic plague. This disease was carried by flees which lived on rats. When the rats died, the flees jumped onto humans and spread the disease. Even though the Black Death was controlled in Europe by 1351, it came back regularly over the next 150 years.
The Black Death, also known as the bubonic plague, was a catastrophic disease that spread throughout Europe, starting in 1347. When the Black Death was happening, the Hundred Years’ War was also going on. The war was already killing many people in England in France, and the Black Death came along and killed even more people. The Black Death led to loss of population. It also led to the end of the manorial system, as well as loss of faith from many people that were infected with the disease.
The Black Death is a disease that was most common during 1347 to 1350. During the Black Death there were a lot of people that have died and there have been big blow outs. People got it and spread it to other people. In my class, we are writing about the bubonic plague known as the Black Death it spread to person to person like wildlife. When the Black Death was done there were dead bodies all over and all over the streets. The Black Death originated in Central Asia and more focused in China.
The Black Death is an incurable disease that spread through Europe during 1346-1352. The disease spread through villages and towns killing people within weeks and it was spreading quickly. People thought this was the going to be the end of the world. The Black Death is one of the main causes for our social and economical changes today.
The plague arrived at Europe when a ship docked and people came out to greet the sailors. What the people found was dead and ill sailors. The ill sailors had black boils all over them, which oozed blood and pus. The authorities forced them to leave but it was too late. Even before the black plague entered Europe, in the 1340’s the black plague spread through China, India, Persia, Syria and Egypt. Many people recorded observations and symptoms of people who have the black plague. As Giovanni Boccaccio wrote “someone who is infected with this disease would have certain swellings, either on the groin or under the armpits…waxed to the bigness of a common apple, others to the size of an egg, some more and some less, and these the vulgar named plague-boils. Blood and pus seeped out of these strange swellings, which were followed by a host of other unpleasant symptoms–fever, chills, vomiting, diarrhea, terrible aches and pains–and then, in short order, death.” The disease was so terrible people would be healthy at night then be dead by tomorrow morning. Now, scientists comprehend that the Black Death or the Black Plague, is spread by a bacillus called Yersina pestis. (The French biologist Alexandre Yersin discovered this germ at the end of the 19th century.) Yersina pestis, travels and infects from person to person ferociously. Yersina pestis can also be airborne, it even enters you through an infected rats or insect. Fun Fact the black plague infect animals as well as humans so when the sheep became infected there was a shortage of wool clothing. The main vector in this disease is yersina pestis which can travel into animal or human and infect them. Another vector is humans, animals (mostly rats), and insects, if all three of these examples are infected they can infect other humans and animals. The host