Plague of Justinian

The bubonic plague, a horrific disease that took millions of lives, swept across Europe during the 1300’s (“The Black Death”). Understanding the the cause of the bubonic plague, the symptoms and how it spreads was crucial to the end of the outbreak. The bubonic plague or also called, black death, or black plague is an extremely feared disease (“Bubonic plague”). The bubonic plague is caused by the bacteria Yersinia Pestis (“The Black Death”). This bacteria is named after one of it’s founders…

The Potato Famine, or Blight, was first recorded August, 1845 in Dublin, Ireland. It was the beginning of the greatest famine Europe would face in the 19th century. In a mere five years the potato harvest failed four times. During the famine, “... over one million Irish perished and a further two million fled the land, never to return.” (Nally, David. “That Coming Storm”). In just under five years, three million people were either dead or had immigrated. Needless to say the Potato Famine forever…

time, which had begun to affect food resources and the economy. Seven years after, the Bubonic Plaque took over Europe and millions of lives were lost. “The year 1351 marked the last major outbreak of the Black Death, although local epidemics of the plague continued to occur in various locations throughout the world for the next several hundred years. Some of those outbreaks were nearly as severe as the first had been” (Black Death, 2016). The destruction that Europe experienced affected the…

Closset, but because Mozart was worried about finishing Requiem that their labors were ineffective. At one o’clock in the morning on December 5th, 1791 at the age of 35,Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart past away. The exact cause of death is not known, this is due to the fact that there were limits in postmortem diagnosis. On his death certificate it shows the cause of death was Hitziges Frieselfieber which is severe miliary fever. Miliary fever is referring to a skin rash that looks like millet seeds.…

section of the world. An example of a epidemic is Yellow fever and pandemic is the Black Plaque. Yellow fever epidemic of 1793 is similar to the plague pandemic of the 14th century because the systems they affect, and the way they’re spread with the exception of the area they affected origin of the outbreak. The 1793 yellow fever is similar to the 1330 plague because they both are circulatory, and they are spread by insects. For instance both the the diseases affect the circulatory system which…

The Black Death was considered as one of the most devastating pandemics in world history. It began in Asia and spread to Europe by the late 1340s. The plague killed 75 millions of people and killed two thirds of Europe’s population. People were getting affected by the disease and dying each day. The aftermath let the civilians to began to question which led to the Renaissance and the Church losing its power. The Black Death originated from China and inner Asia, the Black Death decimated the…

The Black Death was an extremely terrible illness that swept across Europe on someday in october in the year 1347. The Black Death was responsible for as many as 20 million people about one third of the continent. The Death arrived on trade ships and that’s how it got to europe there are still many unanswered questions about the illness and how it just disappeared after a five year spread. The year was 1347 was when twelve Genoese trading ships came to the sicilian port in…

Bubonic plague is transmitted by the rat flea (Xenopsylla Cheopis), which ingests Yersinia pestis cells by sucking blood from an infected animal. Yersinia pestis is a bacterium that infects rodents, humans and the oriental rat flea. It can be life threatening if untreated. The black death is a contagious disease that can spread very fast. Cells multiply in the flea’s intestine and can be transmitted to a healthy animal in the next bite. As the disease spreads, rat mortality becomes so high that…

In Herlihy first essay the “ Bubonic Plague…”he questions if the Black Death was even a plague. He goes back and does his research and notes the medieval chroniclers failed to mention the mass deaths of rats and other rodents, a necessary forerunner to the plague - epizootics, also didn't mention certain characteristic that aren't typically seen in a plague. His theory about the plague was that the “plague was just combinations of several diseases; “sometimes [they] worked together to produce…

disease spreading around trading routes were heard by many Europeans. China was the first to be affected in the early 1330’s. Rodents were affected, transmitting them to fleas, which transmitted the disease to people. The disease was called the Bubonic Plague. China sent the outbreak to other countries such as: India, Persia, Syria, Egypt, and majority of countries in Europe. The Black Death was the name it was given by the Europeans. It arrived to Europe in October 1347. Twelve Genoese trading…