Bubonic plague

townspeople with a much easier life. Doesn’t sound so bad does it? The plague, also known as the black death was a disease spread due to rats, fleas and infected people from not around bringing the awful disease to Europe by traveling overseas to deliver valuable goods. Unfortunately, valuable goods were not the only thing being transported to these two very unlucky continents. Fortunately, the outbreak of the bubonic plague in Europe between 1347 and 1352 was a positive event in history. The…

time, they were the largest percent of those that died, and since there was less of them they were more sought out for work. Those that survived the countless horrors of the Black Death began to live for the moment, while others believed that the plague was sent by God to punish them for their sins, and some people even believed that the Jews were poisoning the water so nearly all Jews would flee to Poland and Russia to escape prosecution. Various revolts and upheavals occurred as a result of…

mid-fourteenth century is by and large the most devastating epidemic of medieval European history. Long thought to have been brought to the European continent by flea-carrying Asian traders, the plague left a crippling trail of death and destruction in its wake. Some scholars now challenge the source of the plague, saying it could not have come from fleas or rats but rather a human-contact transmitted type of hemorrhagic fever. Nevertheless, these facts remain clear: the disease ravaged Europe…

There I was, watching the news with my brother. The news quickly changed to a breaking news story about a movie shooting where 17 were shot and killed. I looked at him and say, “that shooting was awesome.” He looked at me horrified, to which I questioned “what the matter?” He responded with, “How can you sit there and say such an event is awesome?” he stormed out of the room. I thought to myself and realized that my brother only knew the slang definition of the word. He was unaware of the…

During the time when the Black Plague struck there were two main religions in the world, Christianity and Islam. An interesting topic that one might discover of this time is, how did these two religions react to the plague. Could it be possible that they acted as everyone else did at that time, or did they hold strong to their beliefs? One might believe that because Christianity and Islam are two different religions, that they would react in very different ways but in reality that acted quite…

Death a Catastrophe").This shows how people were so scared and didn't want to catch to plague, that they had stopped talking to each other. He had also takes about the symptoms of the Black Plague and how quick people had died from it. He had said that "the mere touching of clothes," wrote Boccaccio,"appeared to itself to communicate the malady to the toucher” ("The Black Death"). “People who did not have the plague and were healthy avoided the sick"("The Black Death").Doctors refused to see…

mass numbers of people in relatively short amount of times. A well-known example was the bubonic plague in the 14th century. This disease was extremely infectious and spread over a vast area as described by the Center of Disease Control when they state "[The Plague] spread along the great trade routes to Constantinople and then to Europe, where it claimed an estimated 60% of the European population" (CDC Plague History 4). If a disease like the black death wiped out most of a continents…

existence. Three epidemic plagues that humanities are credited to have defeated are the Black Death of the fourteenth century, the Justinian Plague, and the late nineteenth century Chinese Plague (Rosen 247). Being said, one of the most destructive disaster’s the human race has witnessed was the Black Death, which devastated the structure of the world at the time. A civilization known as the Byzantine Empire was one of several civilizations that became a victim of the plague. The Black Death,…

Christianity was favored for the dedication of giving aid to the sick and in the Middle East and Africa turned to Islam. But the epidemics and catastrophic outbreaks helped Christianity grow the most making it a large and dominant faith. Within the book Plagues and Peoples, McNeil was able to give a few theories on how Christianity was able to grow. He begins by explaining that through such Hellenic times, Christianity was able to give a gratifying reason for why such outbreaks occurred and was…

The Black Death was known as the “Great Mortality.” It happened in between the years of 1347 and 1350. The amount of lives lost during this pandemic suddenly stopped the economic expansion that spread throughout Europe and Islam (Smith et al. 478). The Black Death resulted in an estimated 75 to 200 million people in Eurasia. The black death not only affected the population it also affected the way the economy was set up. It affected trade and the all the ways that goods get from place to place.…