Yersinia pestis

In Barbara Tuchman’s, “A Distant Mirror, The Calamitous 14th Century,” the 1300s-1400s are greatly exposed as Tuchman takes her reader throughout the numerous events that took place within 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,…

Zombies have overtaken the media world. They have consumed the film and television industry. They continue to grow as viewers are attracted and can relate to how zombies represent our reality in many aspects. The physical and emotional aspects of zombies capture the average American citizen’s attention. Zombies are popular in modern day culture because the represent epidemic outbreaks, anxieties and our daily rituals. One reason why zombies are so popular in this era is because we can compare…

Starting with the social consequences, The plague had large scale social and economic effects. When the plague hit, the Europeans started to abandon their friends and family. They fled from their cities, and even shut themselves off from the rest of the world. The peasants started to become more empowered and soon started to revolt against the aristocracy once they tried to resist the changes happening as a result of the plague. Peasants began rioting in 1358, and 20 years later the…

The Black Death was one of the most catastrophic pandemics in human history. Between the years of 1346 and 1353, the plague killed an estimated 75 to 200 million people. The Black death had originated in the plains of Central Asia, it quickly travelled along the Silk Road, until it reached Crimea in 1343. It was then spread throughout the Mediterranean and Europe being carried by fleas living on black rats. Symptoms of the black death included victims having fevers, abdominal pain, feeling…

The source is a first account of the Black Death’s arrival in Florence, Italy. It was written within The introduction of, The Decameron, in 1741, by Giovanni Boccaccio, a renowned poet, writer, and early humanist to better determine the multitude of deaths of the “Black Death” as it moved inland from port cities. When the plague reached Italy from the east, Giovanni Boccaccio’s account of the actions some individuals took to prevent and avoid the plague were indeed alarming. For instance,…

What Were the Primary Reasons for The “Fall” of Rome? What I really love doing is cooking chorizo with eggs. In order to make it, you have to keep spreading the chorizo into tiny pieces, mix it around for 4 minutes. While its cooking you have to crack open 2-3 eggs and mix it with a pinch of salt. You have to make sure the eggs don’t stick as much on the pan or its going to be hard to clean it. So now I want to learn is, what were the primary reasons why Rome crumbled? Natural disasters,…

Trade affected migratory patterns by making permanent stay possible for the people who were migrating. People found ways to sustain themselves in a place they stopped on along the way and never made it to their actual destination. They stayed and populated that area that they saw that it was benefiting them. The movement of people to urban areas impact everyday life by making them more dependent on manufactured resources. For example people that moved to an urban area stopped harvesting food on…

You can not imagine what I have gone through last year. A great bubonic plague epidemic hit London and led to the death of thousands of people. Recently, I heard some horrible news that the plague will spread to the Glasgow soon. I’m so worried about you. So I’m going to tell you something about my experiences, what will the life with plague be like and how to deal with it, so that you can prepare yourself mentally in advance. Before the situation got worse, I bought a plenty of food to sustain…

Cholera is killing people Cholera is an infection of small intestine by some strains of bacterium vibrio cholera. The classic symptom is large amount of watery diarrhea that lasts a few days. In this vomiting and muscle cramps may also occur. Diarrhea can be so serve that it leads within hours to severe dehydration and electrolyte imbalance. This may result in sunken eyes ,cold skin, decreased skin elasticity, and wrinkling of hands and feets. Because of dehydration skin may turn bluish. Chlorea…

Whenever one get a dog or a cat one likes to play and have fun but sooner or later they will probably get fleas. These little pest can cause itching to someone’s pet and they can develop tape worms in the animal’s intestines if the flea infestation is not taken care of. Fleas are also thought to be responsible for the bubonic plague. This annoying parasites effects it host in some cases transmitting disease. To get the parasite off the host dawn dish soap kills the parasite and its eggs. If the…