Deadly Disease: The Black Death

A severely deadly disease commonly known as, “The Black Death”, was the plague that was caused by “bad bacteria”, from fleas transmitted to people that caused the death of the young, old, and sick wiping out a significant amount of people ranging from 25% to 50% of the population just in Western Europe alone. Other places affected were Eastern Europe and other remote places, this all had occured in 1347- 1351. Since the black death was very common it commonly also affected the people surrounding. Some of the ways the black death had affected people was that as the plague got stronger and increased so did the death rates of the people, the black death was seen as a punishment, and the demand for labor rose.

To start off, when the plague got stronger and increased it also increased how many people died causing a change in the number of the population of the people.”The plague was the fact that it spread all over Europe and that it killed and sickened more people than any pestilence (any disease) that had come before, or has ever come since.”, (The Black Death,2). This information states just how deadly the Black death was and that it was the most deadly out of any disease. As a result of how many people were killed because of the black death it proved the black death to be the most fatal and deadliest of any disease to harm any person. …show more content…
The “people called the flagellants believed that the plague was the judgment of God on sinful mankind”, (Black Death and Sin, 3). Jews were often the ones to blame and mistreated during the times of the plague, they were often judged for being the reason for why God was punishing them. But also at the time of the black death the knowledge of science was very scarce. Due to the lack of education of science, many people did not understand how these diseases were caused, so they were often blamed on witchcraft and the