Pneumonic plague

The Black Death was a major epidemic of the bubonic plague that killed over one third of Eurasia’s population in the 1350s. Last year, I travelled to China, Italy, and England to find out how the Black Death impacted Eurasia during the 1300s. Throughout my journey, I investigated the Silk Road in China, the Orsanmichele church in Italy, and the Museum of London in England for clues that would help me discover the factors that made the Black Death one of the most devastating epidemics in human…

Rat infestations cause overwhelming dilemmas including the most famous rat infestation of all time, the black death. In addition, Rats can carry overwhelming diseases such as the one that caused the black death. This article conveys that rat infestations are when rats swarm human populations by the thousands, the dangers rats have to human populations, and this is causing a response of multiple rat prevention techniques. First rat infestations occur because of the lack of food in the…

London and the Plague Around the time of 1665 the plague took over London. An atmosphere of anxiety, desperation and fear imbued the London streets. The constant fear of being infected led many wealthy people to flee the city. It also pushed officials to enact new regulations. Reading fictional accounts like Daniel Defoe’s “A Journal of the Plague Year” allows readers to understand the altered city of London. The plague caused London’s culture to change. The Lord Mayor and…

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.…

East due to the Black Death. People’s responses to this calamity was influenced by their religion and worldview. The two major religions, Christianity and Islam, dealt with the Black Death in many different ways. As for the Muslims, they viewed the plague as if it was a blessing from God and that prayer was negative. However, Christians believed it was a punishment from God, but God was not the only person they blamed. These statements are not the only ones that show how vastly different the…

"The Black Plague" It was a regular day in beautiful Marseille, it was 1348 and even when the day was beautiful once could smell the fear of the people in the ambient. Word had spread that the black death was taking many victims. Everyone was worried, everyone except Mr. and Mrs. Dupont. They were newly weds and they were living on their own happiness bubble. Andrew Dupont was a young doctor, he was obsessed with medicine, but he became even more obsessed with his beautiful wife. They were so in…

The Black Death (also called the plague) hit Europe, almost all things, mostly the daily elements of life, were under the influence of the Roman Catholic Church. During this time, almost every action one would make would require prayer. The church had always told the people right from wrong. The church and followers believed that the afterlife was more important than ones present life. It was a must to be given the last rights and to confess ones sins before dying to be sure of a peaceful…

talks about how the black death got started, who started the plague, when it started spreading, and why the plague started. So stayed tuned to hear a brief history lesson about a plague like no ordinary and how it almost died off cities and the human population decreased dramatically. Diane Zahler is the author of ¨The Black Death¨ and studies about medieval history during her college studies and was fascinated about the bubonic plague. Some of the book she has published are for grades…

world’s worst epidemics in human history struck Europe, the great plague that caused enough pestilence and death that claimed roughly half of Europe’s population was called the Black Death. Until recently, the Black Death has been widely believed to be a large outbreak of the bubonic plague as some historians challenge this original view. The origins of the black death is still unclear as there are many viewpoints of this plague such as: some believe that the Black Death originated in China or…

power and a voice. Ever since then I learned to keep my mouth shut and follow orders from the man of the house. That lesson was the thing that helped me get through life. The thing that taught me where I stand, where woman stand. After this plague…