The Black Death played a significant role in early history. It wiped out a large amount of the population of it’s time. It also changed the way the people around it lived their daily lives. Even being a dark subject and time in history it still is important to address. It was a very strange point in history and tested the generation experiencing it.
The Black Death originated in China in 1334 and spread to Constanople and then to Eu-rope. There it killed an estimated 60% of the population. “Entire towns were wiped out.” Some contemporary historians report that on occasion, there were not enough remaining to bury the dead.” “Despite the vast devastation caused by this pandemic, however, massive labor shortages due to high mortality rates sped …show more content…
More heavily populated areas suffered worst. “The rapidity of the disease’s spread and the lack of con-temporary reports of numerous dead black rats suggest that other diseases may also have been involved.” “The Black Death reached England in August 1348. It first appeared in Dorset and had spread to London by November.” (Sommerville)
If the plague was a manifestation of divine anger, the Christians should do all they could to assuage that anger. This simple impulse brought along bonds of people called flagellants who would wander through towns and countrysides doing penance in public. “In Germany, there was a bishop who during mass offered the host at the end of a pole or a long handled spoon. The wealthy would flee to the countryside.” “Bishops died, and so did their successors, and even their successors. (Par. 2)
The fact that the disease targeted domestic sheep and cattle put a large strain on the econ-omy due to the shortage of food and income. “The plague disease, caused by Yersine Pestis, is endemic in populations of ground rodents in Central Asia, but is not entirely clear where the fourteen century pandemic started.” “A devastating civil war in China between the established Chinese population and the Mongols raged between 1205 and 1353. This war disrupted farming and trading patterns, and led to episodes of widespread famine.” (Par.
The Black Death originated in China in 1334 and spread to Constanople and then to Eu-rope. There it killed an estimated 60% of the population. “Entire towns were wiped out.” Some contemporary historians report that on occasion, there were not enough remaining to bury the dead.” “Despite the vast devastation caused by this pandemic, however, massive labor shortages due to high mortality rates sped …show more content…
More heavily populated areas suffered worst. “The rapidity of the disease’s spread and the lack of con-temporary reports of numerous dead black rats suggest that other diseases may also have been involved.” “The Black Death reached England in August 1348. It first appeared in Dorset and had spread to London by November.” (Sommerville)
If the plague was a manifestation of divine anger, the Christians should do all they could to assuage that anger. This simple impulse brought along bonds of people called flagellants who would wander through towns and countrysides doing penance in public. “In Germany, there was a bishop who during mass offered the host at the end of a pole or a long handled spoon. The wealthy would flee to the countryside.” “Bishops died, and so did their successors, and even their successors. (Par. 2)
The fact that the disease targeted domestic sheep and cattle put a large strain on the econ-omy due to the shortage of food and income. “The plague disease, caused by Yersine Pestis, is endemic in populations of ground rodents in Central Asia, but is not entirely clear where the fourteen century pandemic started.” “A devastating civil war in China between the established Chinese population and the Mongols raged between 1205 and 1353. This war disrupted farming and trading patterns, and led to episodes of widespread famine.” (Par.