The Black Death The Black Death was a very deadly disease, killing many people across Europe. It was also called the Black Plague. The Black Plague was a disease that affected many people that spread across Europe and destroyed their normal living style. There were a lot of symptoms that both men and women would have. At first if you had the disease, you would start to swell in certain spots. Like under the armpit or the groin. They are called tumors. “These swellings got hard like rocks and hurt”. (http://quatr.us/science/medicine/plague.htm) They would grow to become huge black spots and spread to any part of the body. It was named the Black Death because of the black
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But today with all the materials and knowledge we know what causes it. It is a bacterium that is in a flea’s blood. Since a flea sucks blood, if it sucks someone who has the disease and then bites someone who doesn’t that person will get the disease. The disease normally affects rodents. Some people think that the plague first was originated in china.” But the first recorded instance of people getting bubonic plague was in Constantinople about 570 AD.” (http://quatr.us/science/medicine/plague.htm) When everyone understood what was happening and that people were beginning to die, everyone got scared and tried to leave the city. When they left they would spread the disease to other cities and soon it was everywhere. “The most likely scenario for its spread points to Mongol rulers in Asia who had settled down from their rampages to establish stable caravan routes from China to the Black Sea where Italian merchants would trade for the silks and spices so highly valued in Europe” (http://www.flowofhistory.com/units/west/10/FC71) Everyone came up with ideas about how the plague got there differently. Some thought it came from the wind. If you were in a tight living space with many other people, the more the disease spread because there were a lot more bugs. Especially if where they were living wasn’t very …show more content…
As soon as the plague started to spread, people began to panic because nobody really understood what was happening. Fathers would leave their sons when they got sick in hope to not get the disease. “Friars and nuns were left to care for the sick”. (http://www.themiddleages.net/plague.html) People would lock themselves in their houses where there weren’t any sick people. Medieval Europe never fully returned to normal state even after the big outbreaks ended. Everyone that had survived was scared and in hope that the outbreak wouldn’t reoccur. About twenty five million people had died between the years of 1347 and 1352. Houses were abandoned and left alone. And the cost of everything went up. The Black Death scared so many people that they decided to come up with the medication and supplies for modern time. “The Black Death did set the stage for more modern medicine and spurred changes in public health and hospital management.” God was also a big part in the social and economic effects. People thought that it was gods fault and that he had betrayed them, making them want to betray him. “Feeling, essentially, that God had turned his back on them, the people reacted to the end of the Black Death by turning their backs on him.” People would begin to drink and do things they wouldn’t normally do. The Black Death had destroyed Medieval Europe’s social and economic ways of
But today with all the materials and knowledge we know what causes it. It is a bacterium that is in a flea’s blood. Since a flea sucks blood, if it sucks someone who has the disease and then bites someone who doesn’t that person will get the disease. The disease normally affects rodents. Some people think that the plague first was originated in china.” But the first recorded instance of people getting bubonic plague was in Constantinople about 570 AD.” (http://quatr.us/science/medicine/plague.htm) When everyone understood what was happening and that people were beginning to die, everyone got scared and tried to leave the city. When they left they would spread the disease to other cities and soon it was everywhere. “The most likely scenario for its spread points to Mongol rulers in Asia who had settled down from their rampages to establish stable caravan routes from China to the Black Sea where Italian merchants would trade for the silks and spices so highly valued in Europe” (http://www.flowofhistory.com/units/west/10/FC71) Everyone came up with ideas about how the plague got there differently. Some thought it came from the wind. If you were in a tight living space with many other people, the more the disease spread because there were a lot more bugs. Especially if where they were living wasn’t very …show more content…
As soon as the plague started to spread, people began to panic because nobody really understood what was happening. Fathers would leave their sons when they got sick in hope to not get the disease. “Friars and nuns were left to care for the sick”. (http://www.themiddleages.net/plague.html) People would lock themselves in their houses where there weren’t any sick people. Medieval Europe never fully returned to normal state even after the big outbreaks ended. Everyone that had survived was scared and in hope that the outbreak wouldn’t reoccur. About twenty five million people had died between the years of 1347 and 1352. Houses were abandoned and left alone. And the cost of everything went up. The Black Death scared so many people that they decided to come up with the medication and supplies for modern time. “The Black Death did set the stage for more modern medicine and spurred changes in public health and hospital management.” God was also a big part in the social and economic effects. People thought that it was gods fault and that he had betrayed them, making them want to betray him. “Feeling, essentially, that God had turned his back on them, the people reacted to the end of the Black Death by turning their backs on him.” People would begin to drink and do things they wouldn’t normally do. The Black Death had destroyed Medieval Europe’s social and economic ways of