The Effects Of The Black Death

The Black Death was devastating and was one of the most significant events in Medieval Britain. The Black Death was also known the plague and bubonic plague it describes the spread of disease that caused mass deaths throughout Britain. The disease itself was carried by fleas and spread across Europe between 1346-1353 leaving towns and city such as Siena Italy with 85% of the population wiped out. This was seen all over Europe including Britain and it can be argued economic factors was the most significant consequences of the Black Death. However there are many factors such as political, social factors and Mortality rates that were also results of the Black Death and perhaps social factors may be more significant.

The Black Death was one of the most life-changing pandemics in history. It was first discovered 550 years later in the 1800s by Alexandre Yersin, a french biologist. In his honor, the plague was named Yersinia Pestis. The plague traveled in two major ways. Yersin discovered that it traveled by infected fleas; the flea would attempt to feed on a human or animal and would then regurgitate the disease into the new host, further spreading the illness. Urban areas across Europe were populous with rats, which were one of the main hosts of the plague. These rodents spread the Black Death throughout cities in days. The unaffected still were not safe if they did not come in contact with an infected flea or rat. The plague also traveled pneumonically, or through the air. It caused large boils full of blood and pus, which would pop and spread. Another symptom was coughing, which was one of the many ways of proliferation. The disease eventually spread throughout Europe and killed a third of it’s population. It’s wrath caused many shortages, loss in hope, riots, and even some good things, such as many changes in art, science, and education. Therefore, the Black Death was one of the most life-changing pandemics in history.

As was we all know that The Black Death is one of the tragic events in world history and it has effected many civilizations in early 1300s. This has made many devastating trends within Europe’s borders and raged with many diseases, and other infections. Not only this pandemic event has effected many people, but it has transform Europe’ political, religious, and cultural practices. The Black Death became an outbreak and painful change to western civilization in which it marked history

The Black Death was one of the most devastating worldwide diseases in human history. The plague originated in central Asia and was brought to China by traders and Mongols from 1334-1347. Mongol protection of the trade may have caused the disease to spread along the “Silk Road” to Crimea. During a Mongol siege against Caffa in 1347, the Mongolian army began to die. The Mongols catapulted the dead bodies into the city where the fleas on the corpses were released into Caffa. In the year 1347, October, Genoese traders escaped from the city and sailed to Messina, an Italian port, unaware that they were infected by the disease. Eventually, everyone on the ship died and a “ghost ship” made it to port. Seeing no activity on board, the ship was

One of the well known massive disasters that happened in the history of European is the “Black Death.” This fatal plague led to huge loss of between 17 million and 28 million lives in whole Europe. It took place from 1345 to 1353 and the death arrived by sea during the time when twelve Genoese trading ships had actually docked at the Sicilian port after travelling through the Black Sea. A horrifying surprise befell the individuals who were gathering on the docks when they realized that a great number of sailors had died, and the lucky sailors were extremely ill. In addition, they were covered by mysterious black boils which oozed pus and blood (Cohn, pg 514). This is why they named this kind of illness as the “Black Death.” Then what followed were other various symptoms such as vomiting, fever, diarrhea, chills, severe aches and extraordinary pains- and then death.

The Black Death was an epidemic of the bubonic plague, a disease caused by the bacteria Yersinia pestis that circulates among wild rodents. There are three types of this disease bubonic, pneumonic, and septicaemic. The bubonic plague caused severe headaches, fever, vomiting, and buboes which is a swollen lymph node in the armpit or groin. Bubonic is the most common type of plague and the victim usually dies approximately 22 days after coming into contact with another infected

The pandemic known to history as the Black Death was one of the world’s worst natural disasters in history. It was a critical time for many as the plague hit Europe and “devastated the Western world from 1347 to 1351, killing 25%-50% of Europe’s population and causing or accelerating marked political, economic, social, and cultural changes.” The plague made an unforgettable impact on the history of the West. It is believed to have originated somewhere in the steppes of central Asia in the 1330s and then spread westwards along the caravan routes. It spread over Europe like a wildfire and left a devastating mark wherever it passed. In its first few weeks in Europe, it killed between 100 and 200 people per day. Furthermore, as the weather became colder, the plague worsened, escalating the mortality rate to as high as 750 deaths per day. By the spring of 1348, the death toll may have reached 1000 a day. One of the main reasons the plague spread so quickly and had such a devastating effect on Europe was ultimately due to the lack of medical knowledge during the medieval time period.

Numerous lives were taken in the 14th century at the hands of the Black Death. This devastating pandemic made a huge dent in the world’s population. Before this Plaque there was an estimated 450 million people, this decreased to 350-375 million shortly after. The Black Death drastically effected the European’s in this century, because the death tolls increased daily in many of their civilizations. The Black Death, otherwise known as the Bubonic Plaque, was spread by rats and fleas brought to England in boats.

Healing has been around a long time. You may think that medicine has changed a lot over the years, and it has for the better. But that does not mean that some of the practices have stayed around. prayer, accupuncture, diet, etc. have all stayed around, but have changed slightly.

At the time, the Black Death, also known as the Bubonic Plague, was going around which was a very nasty and deadly disease that began in 1328 AD in Asia. It was bacteria that fleas were infected with and when humans were bitten, they were then infected which caused the spread of the disease. Of course it had a great effect. It spread through Central Asia, China, and Western Europe. It swept through Italy then went through France,Spain, Germany, England, and other parts of North America and Europe. Town population began to fall, prices would go up when trade was declined so trade decreased, serfs would leave their owners and look for better jobs, and Jews were sacred all around Europe, etc. Back in this time, people didn't really have any knowledge on germs and thought people were just poisoned. Of the bumps and boils that came with the disease, some people would use a knife or something to get into them and draw out the poison and some people would survive by this method. Giovanni Boccaccio, an italian writer during the time, said “This scourge had implanted so great a terror in the hearts of men and women that brothers abandoned brothers, uncles their nephews, sisters their brothers, and in many cases wives deserted their husbands. But even worse, . . . fathers and mothers refused to nurse and assist their own children.”

Death. It is a part of nature. Everything that has ever lived will at one point in time die. Yet how a person dies can be felt as a punishment and in the late 1300’s and early 1400’s the Black Death was a common disease that began to feel like that punishment. During this time, the dead littered the streets. Cattle and livestock roamed the country unattended. Brother deserted brother. Mother deserted child. The streets and cities were in total disarray. The Black Plague was not very easy to live with and even worse to die from, which is saying that the people who caught it lived long enough to experience its full effect. People during this time period said that the disease was a punishment brought to them by God. Many inhabitants started to doubt God and said that they were not good enough for His love. The impact of the Black Death significantly impacted people’s religious convictions as well as their daily lives.

The Bubonic Plague, more commonly referred to as the "Black Death," ravaged Europe between the years 1347 and 1350 (Herzog, 2000). During this short period, according to Herzog (2000), 25 million people (which were about one third of Europe's population at the time) were killed. In another article, Herlihy (1997), however, claimed that two thirds of Europe’s population were killed. Nevertheless, it is ascertained that thousands of people died each week and dead bodies littered the streets. Once a family member had contracted the disease, the entire household was doomed to die. Parents abandoned their children, and parent-less children roamed the streets in search for food. Victims, delirious with

In the fourteenth century the Black Death transpired, killing millions. It is hard to believe that the gruesome plague was only seven hundred years ago and the outcome is still efficacious today, with other plagues, cousins to the epidemic. The Black Death was the worst plague that has ever hit Europe due to its mysterious origins, its devastating effects, rapid escalation, as well as how it was treated, which was very poorly.

The Black Death has been regarded as one of the worst pandemic to affect humans. Although history has focused so much on the impact of the plague on Europe, evidence shows that it affected parts of Asia as well with its terrifying symptoms. This investigation seeks to find the answers to the question: “To what extend did the effects of the black plague differ in Europe versus Asia?” Finding the answer to this will confirm how much the impact of the epidemic on the world is concerned. Historical books show that Black Death ended up killing between a third and two-thirds of Europeans. Others show that the outbreak was a multi-regional pandemic that killed more than 75 million people in parts of Asia including China, India, and the East. This paper will analyze the difference in the social, economic, and political aftermath of the plague outbreak in Europe and Asia.

On October 1347, 12 Genoese trading vessels docked at the port of Messina in Sicily. They bobbed in the harbor quiet and inactive. Curious citizens boarded the ships to investigate and found a ghastly scene: bespotted corpses below deck, the smell of putrescence and fear hung in the air. Those few sailors who were not dead were barely living, oozing puss from black boils, covered in their own vomit and blood. The Black Death had arrived in Europe. The Plague, Modern science tells us, is caused by a bacillus that travels from person to person; through the air, pneumatically or through infected flea bites. It is an incredibly contagious disease. Once caught there was nothing that could be done, in fact, the medical practices of the day might have escalated the situation. Reactions to this illness varied, all knew they were doomed, still, the need to rationalize this apocalyptic disease was necessary. With such little understanding of real science though, they turned to spiritual explanations, ‘God's wrath was upon them'. The Black Death catastrophic effect, socially and economically wiping out 20 million people (history.com).