Black Death

through the black sea ported at the Sicilian port of Messina and the sailors that survived thereof successfully passed it on to the unsuspecting victims of Europe. However, the first sightings of the bubonic plague sprouted up around the 6th century. The emperor at the time (Justinian 1) named it the Justinian plague beginning in 541 AD, it then lived up to its name and killed up to 25 million people at the time (Rosen 2007). It then moved on to china in 1334 where it achieved the name “The…

In the mid fourteenth century the first wave of the bubonic plague broke out, but it didn’t stop there. Outbreaks throughout Europe continued well through the eighteenth century. Many people fled, trying to escape the death that lingered everywhere they looked. The plague spread fear, as well as sickness; caused people to turn to the church; and develop different theories as to why the disease plagued them. Because of the plague, fear was spread throughout Europe, in turn causing people to…

overtime the fatal flaws of humans and societies began to take their toll. Myths of Gods, creation of man, and the supernatural became the dominant theocracy. The Hellenistic period began, and city-states formed. Wars broke out, people were sentenced to death over trivial laws, and political greed came about. The ancient Olympic Games were even known for a place where…

The Black Death was a plague that wrecked havoc throughout Europe in the mid-14th century from 1347 and 1351. The plague caused fear throughout the people of Europe because in just four years, an estimated 25 million people were killed. Through that fear were the reactions that all humans have to stressing times, those reactions were to blame something else for the sickness, to avoid the sickness, and to explain the sickness. Some of Europe's people had the reaction of blame towards…

In B. Tuchmans “The Plague” she documents a very historical event a disaster possibly still the worst of them all till this very day, The Bubonic Plague. What exactly is the bubonic plague? The bubonic or as some know it black death is a bacterial Infection transmitted by fleas from infected rodents. Some the symptoms are high fever,, weakness and formation of buboes in the groins and armpits. This deadly disease started during the 18th century. The Bubonic hasn’t infected anyone today but we…

Africa. It was a time of horror, mainly because of the disease commonly known by many names, including, the Black Death, the bubonic plague, and pneumonic plague. This plague was the killer of over a third of the population of Europe, and was unstoppable in nature. It didn’t matter how you tried to safeguard yourself from it, it found you. In the face of such a seemingly guaranteed death, mankind stooped a very low existance, where most men only wanted what was best for themselves and didn’t…

In the 21st century, people never hear about massive plague outbreaks in the world thanks to modern medicine. However in the 15th century, the bubonic plague was a highly contagious diseases that started out with symptoms of a cold but led to death. With unadvanced medicine, the hundred thousands of people infected could not be treated. Many times over the course of history in Europe and Asia, thousands of people lots their lives in the massive wipe outs that were caused by the bubonic plague.…

The bubonic plague was allegedly caused by a bacterium called “Yersina pestis”, which was often found on wild rodents in large quantities and densities. At the time, these “wild rodents” were mostly black rats that were found on ships that were used for trade. If a rat was a host to a flea carrying the deadly bacterium, the rat would most likely die within 14 days. In order to survive, the fleas would then turn to human hosts. This is how the plague spread. Once the bacterium was present, the…

the given time period. Barbara uses twenty seven chapters divided into two parts to thoroughly explain her love of the fourteenth century. Tuchman begins the book by explaining she at first wanted to learn about the effects of society after the, “Black Death” epidemic that took place in Europe from 1348-1350, yet the period completely entranced her, leaving her to intricately study numerous events, such as The Hundred Years War, where she mainly covers the Battle of Poitiers in Chapter 6, and…

suffered for days before death. However other more lucky victims died almost immediately after the beginning of symptoms. Many people in Justinian’s empire laid the blame for the outbreak on the emperor, declaring him to be a devil or that the emperor himself was being punished at the hands of God for his wrongdoings. When wall was said and done, at least 50 million people were taken out of Constantinople due to the Plague of Justinian (Horgan, 2014). After Justinian’s death in 565 AD, the…