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    central asha In the 4th century the black plague swept through europe it killed over 20 million people it was cared in the bloodstream of the blake rats and their fleas on trade boats. it was the worst plague in history and was nicknamed the black death to make matters worse there was an over population at the time and it lead to poor and little higen which made it easier for the plague to spread and everything in its way. The black death was a plague that Everybody panicked and Some…

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    Between 400 AD and 1400 AD, Europe was known as the “Dark Ages,” a time of cultural decline and decay. For instance, according to, (1954). The Record of Mankind, “The chief cause of this decline was lack of a government which could keep order.” Using Maslow’s hierarchy of Needs it’s shown that if the people did not acquire their physiological needs, which in this case would be food and clothing, nothing else would matter. Particularly, if the government lacks the needed resource for its country…

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    Intro - There are many ways the Black Plague affected Europe. Dead body’s stacking up outside your home was normal. I will tell you about the horrifying things the Black Death did to people, and how the plague got to Europe. Then I will tell you about some of the insane ways they tried to treat the Black Death. How did this misery end? Keep reading to find out. Paragraph 1 - What was the Black Death? The Black Plague was one of the worst catastrophes in history. It destroyed a higher…

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    and diseases. The medicine at the time wasn't very accurate because doctors had no idea what caused people to become sick. Medieval doctors started to realize, after the plague, that hygiene and being clean helped prevent some of the terrible diseases. The Black Death In Europe during the middle ages, there was an awful plague called The Black Death. This disease was believed to kill nearly a third of Europe's whole population. There were no real types of antibiotics so doctors basically…

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    have just crossed somebody with the bubonic plague, also known as the Black Death. In Barbara Tuchman’s “This Is the End of the World: The Black Death”, she explains what the bubonic plague is and what effects it caused to this world. Tuchman explains that the bubonic plague first spawned in “China and spreaded through Tartary to India and Persia, Mesopotamia, Syria, Egypt, and eventually reaching Europe by 1346” (Tuchman 597). By mid 1350, the bubonic plague…

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    you are breathing in infected air. . .BOOM! You can get this deadly disease. The majority of the time it takes 10-14 days before the plague has killed off most of a contaminated rat colony. Which made it very difficult for great numbers of fleas gathered on the rest of the living. But after three days of fasting, hungry rats and fleas turn onto humans. A plague is a contagious bacterial disease characterized by fever (Person 13). Blood and pus were followed by strange swellings and other…

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    There has been many plagues throughout history but not one earning the name the black death in the thirteenth century. The bubonic plague was a deadly disease that decimated Europe’s population and infrastructure during the mid fourteenth to early fifteenth century, but while it had a positive effect on the economy at the same time religion was at a decline. The bubonic plague is an ancient disease that is derived from a bacteria called yersinia pestis that infects rodents and then transmitted…

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    The Black Plague resulted the death of an estimated 25 to 60 percent of Europeans. The Black Death spread through Western Europe between 1348 and 1349. It was called the plague because it killed more people than anything before. The Black Death led to many changes one of them being that farmland was not used which reduced the output of food. Another change was that the demand for labor rose. The Black Plague spread through Europe from 1347 to 1351. It was called a plague because it killed…

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    the Middle Ages the most mind boggling thing was how fast it spread. The Black Death had a major impact on the daily life of those who unfortunately caught the disease, the real mystery was what caused it. The Black Death, The Bubonic Plague, quickly spread through Europe causing…

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    readers the effects of the plague that caused so much destruction. The Black Death was a pandemic that occurred in the 1300s and left civilizations destroyed from the massive amount of people it killed. Cantor explains that there will most likely always be a degree of uncertainty about the plague because of the limitations from the medical profession in the fourteenth century. Cantor brings attention to the question of whether the plague solely consisted of the bubonic plague or if there was…

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