The Black Death Research Paper

During The Middle Ages, the most unbearable disease struck this time period. You can't think of anything worse than this, this disease was known as The Black plague or The Black Death. In October of 1347, a trade ship docked at the Silicon port of Messina after a long journey across The Black Sea. When they arrived, many people we’re already dead and some were severely ill. Many of them had fevers, they couldn’t keep down their food and they had black boils across their face, The authorities called for a fleet of the “death ships”, but it was too late. Over the next 5 years, over 20 million people died from this mysterious disease. The question is, what kind of disease can cause so much damage to this time period? The Black Death …show more content…
Textbooks say the Black Death took over a third of the population, but in fact it did not reach certain parts of Europe. The Black Death was not a disease of the black rat transmitted to humans by fleas. They also say how the Black Death was not a disease of poverty, many wealthy and well-fed convents, friaries, and monasteries across Europe lost more than half of their members; some even became extinct. They say it was not a disease only of large cities and towns and villages in lowlands. In 1348–49, some of the worst-hit regions were in mountainous and in relatively isolated zones. The disease, did not affect afflict all major European cities and towns on principal trade routes. There was even talk that Jews were the cause of the disease, they were accused of spreading poisonous substance in food and water. The first ‘quarantine’ was not invented in Venice – rather it was a ‘trentine’ first legislated in Ragusa. In all attempts to end the plague in Europe were not in vain. Different people thought of different ways to get rid of the horrible disease, they tried different types of rituals and tacts, that the Church was not aware of. The Black Traveled faster than any other …show more content…
Well the little kid song that we may know or love describes the most horrific events that occurred during The Middle Ages, The Black Plague. The song starts off with, “Ring around the Rosy”, implying when people were affected with the disease they had black boils on their face. “A pocketful of Posies”, the disease was slowly killing people, so to make them smell good, they shoved flowers and herbs in their clothes to make them smell good. “Ashes, Ashes”, in order to stop the disease from spreading, they had to burn the bodies. “We all fall down” the plague killed millions of