I was in class pondering different topics and ideas to write about but none satisfied me. I turned my attention to the board where others were weighing their topics when in saw what gave me the idea. Emily Peters was writing about the dark ages and they made me think of one of the most memorable events of the dark ages. The Black Death killed thousands of people in European countries in the medieval time. It was such a horrifically memorable event in history a children 's song was wrote about it, Ring Around the Rosie.
What I Know The black plague started in mid evil times, better know as the dark ages. It was the deadliest plague to ever be documented in the history of the world. It was also the most widespread plague in the world, killing …show more content…
Individual graves would not work because of lack of space for graves. This is where the mass graves came to be. The church would dig a large hole down to the water table. Overnight those who died from the plague would be wrapped and carried to the pit. In the morning they would be covered with a layer of dirt. This process would repeat itself until the pit was slightly mounded again. There were even some reports of the bodies being covered so lightly with dirt that dogs would dig them up and devour them in the streets of the cities and towns(Historytoday, 2005). These mass graves were called plague pits.
The plague was said to have started in China or somewhere in Central China. It traveled down the silk road to Crimea where it was transferred on to the rats on ships and the plague sailed to new places all over Europe. It affected every European country at some point in the 1300’s from the Ukraine to Spain. In total the plague reached roughly forty five to fifty of the European countries spreading from one to another like wildfire(Newhealthguid …show more content…
I would also like to figure out when exactly we discovered it was a bacterium. I would also like to know why people are still getting this disease and dieing from it if it is preventable and curable with medication. Also I would like to know if there is a possible outbreak of the plague right around the corner and what we will have to do to combat the plague to hopefully not have as bad of an outcome that the Europeans did in the 1300’s.
Where I go From here.
After learning about the plague so much I have a new respect for medical sciences. If we didn 't know what cause the plague and didn 't know how to cure it we could have epidemics all over the world. People would be dieing continuously and we would all be scared for our lives just like the Europeans were in the 1300’s. I will also keep up to date on new cases of the illness especially in the United States. Also I will make sure that all the areas I go to in warmer climates are rat and flea free so I stand a better chance at not contracting the
What I Know The black plague started in mid evil times, better know as the dark ages. It was the deadliest plague to ever be documented in the history of the world. It was also the most widespread plague in the world, killing …show more content…
Individual graves would not work because of lack of space for graves. This is where the mass graves came to be. The church would dig a large hole down to the water table. Overnight those who died from the plague would be wrapped and carried to the pit. In the morning they would be covered with a layer of dirt. This process would repeat itself until the pit was slightly mounded again. There were even some reports of the bodies being covered so lightly with dirt that dogs would dig them up and devour them in the streets of the cities and towns(Historytoday, 2005). These mass graves were called plague pits.
The plague was said to have started in China or somewhere in Central China. It traveled down the silk road to Crimea where it was transferred on to the rats on ships and the plague sailed to new places all over Europe. It affected every European country at some point in the 1300’s from the Ukraine to Spain. In total the plague reached roughly forty five to fifty of the European countries spreading from one to another like wildfire(Newhealthguid …show more content…
I would also like to figure out when exactly we discovered it was a bacterium. I would also like to know why people are still getting this disease and dieing from it if it is preventable and curable with medication. Also I would like to know if there is a possible outbreak of the plague right around the corner and what we will have to do to combat the plague to hopefully not have as bad of an outcome that the Europeans did in the 1300’s.
Where I go From here.
After learning about the plague so much I have a new respect for medical sciences. If we didn 't know what cause the plague and didn 't know how to cure it we could have epidemics all over the world. People would be dieing continuously and we would all be scared for our lives just like the Europeans were in the 1300’s. I will also keep up to date on new cases of the illness especially in the United States. Also I will make sure that all the areas I go to in warmer climates are rat and flea free so I stand a better chance at not contracting the