The Bubonic Plague started spreading in 1350. It was spreading from fleas on rodents. Their trade route also made the Plague start spreading. The Plague started on the east and went to the west.…
Did you know that 4.8 million people died in France, from the Bubonic plague? The Bubonic plague has deadly symptoms. The plague spread throughout Europe. The plague started in 1347.…
People started to assume rats carried and passed the sickness on to others. The rats actually carried fleas and if a person was bit they’d catch the plague. Looking at the nap on Document A the plague crossed water and came onto land showing the plague had to be contagious because rats don’t swim in big bodies of oceans. They weren’t as sanitized and clean as we are modern day, they didn’t know about germs and what could happen if you cough on someone , so I’d say looking at the map it spread through those traveling on water and trade.…
People in the 14th century’s understanding of the plague was inaccurate because their reasoning for how the plague originated from and how to cure themselves from the plague were wrong. In document A, it states that the plague originated from “the constellations which combated the rays of the sun that exerted their power especially against the sea and the waters of the ocean arose in the form of vapor. The waters were in some parts so corrupted that the fish died. Causing the vapor to spread through the air in many places of the earth”. The corrupted sea wind that blows through islands are the “causes” of the plague.…
Throughout the whole book the plague kills off many people, and they spend most of their time trying to prevent it from spreading. But the most important question that they must ask is, how did the plague travel from a larger city such as London, to their smaller more removed town? In the book the first case of a plague happens shortly after Mr. Viccars receives a roll of cloth from London. Of course, the reader will automatically assume that the disease was transported in the roll of cloth, which is scientifically correct.…
In the 14th century, a new disease emerged which soon to be was named “Black Death”. Theories speculate that it originated within central Asia or Northern India. Nonetheless, the disease created wide struck panic throughout Europe. Infectious waves occurred within Europe between 1347 and 1400 killing 25 – 50 million people. During this dark era, people ran like beheaded poultry in fear.…
A deadly plague started from Central Asia to Europe and struck the continent. Black death originated from steppes of Central Asia. Brought by the travelers through trade routes. Plague terrorized Europe and part of Asia in the timeline 1300 s - 1700 s. In some part of England the death was 50 % and some part of France suffered 90% of their populations.…
The Bubonic plague is caused by a bacterium yersinia pestis that is found on the fleas of rats. The disease spread to Europe from the Far East in the 14th century along the trade routes of the silk road. The East was experiencing a great boom in trade and economics under the Mongolian Empire that Genghis Khan had built. The Silk Road saw much more use do to the Mongol conquests and the subsequent Pax Mongolica. This intracontinental trade resulted in the people of Italy seeing their first victims in the mid 14th century.…
Some historians argue that it came to Europe from China, others are in favor of the Himalayas, southern Russia, or northern Iraq (Byrne, 48). However, a general direction is agreed upon and that is that the plague entered Europe from the east. This can be seen as another similarity between the plague and the European diseases in the Americas, since diseases such as smallpox were brought to the Americas by the conquistadores from the east as well. The plague first appeared in Europe by the end of 1346 or the beginning of 1347. In the year 1348 the plague was the strongest and spread through most of Southern Europe reaching the rest of Europe within the next few years and ending by the year 1353 (Byrne, 50-51; Pamuk, 293).…
The plague arrived by ship in October of 1347. The tragedy was extraordinary, killing around 60 percent of Europe’s entire population. About 50 million people were killed because of the plague in a seven year time span. Understandably, citizens were terrified that the disease was coming for their own village. The plague caused great panic and terror around all of Europe.…
The plague claimed the lives of more than a million people. It appeared in the Constantinople in 542 CE one year after it arrived at the outer areas of the empire. The plague continued to spread throughout the Mediterranean for another 225 years until it disappeared in 750 CE. The initial plague can be traced back to China and northeast India; however, the Justinian plague's point of origin was Egypt. Historian, Procopius of Caesarea, identified the beginning of the plague in Pelusium on the Nile River's northern and eastern shores.…
The Bubonic plague was a horrific time in history. The Plague took Europe by storm. It started December 31st, 1347(Source: Plague Map). People were dying all throughout Europe. Just about 23 million died between the years 1345 and 1400(Source: http://www.hyw.com/books/history/Black_De.htm) .…
The word “pandemic” can be defined as a disease that takes over a whole country or even the world. The Black Death was exactly that, one of the most shocking and serious pandemics that took over Europe and Asia in the Middle Ages. The Black Death, also known as the Bubonic Plague, reached Europe in the late 1340s and killed around 25 million people there; altogether, it eventually killed an estimated 75 million people worldwide. The Black Death originated in China in the 1330s. China was a very popular nation for trade at the time, which led to a quick spread of this disease.…
The Black plague was thought to have started in Mongolia around 1320. Then, as it spread it ventured throughout China and other parts of Asia, killing anything that got…
Although it felt like a century that the plague lasted, it only lasted about ten years ending in the 1350s. It started in Europe when 12 Genoese trading ships went through the Black Sea, then docked at the Sicilian port of Messina. When the ships docked, an abundance of rats fled the ships and went to the city; the rats had fleas on them that had the disease and when the fleas bit the people the people contracted the horrifying disease. The fleas started to bite the people…