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The Black Death was a plague that overwhelmed Europe at the beginning of the 1350's. During the time of the plague, nearly half of Europe's population was killed by the Black Death. Many people believe that it was brought to Europe via the trade routes to and from Asia. As soon as it arrived, the Bubonic Plague spread vigorously, claiming the lives of all ages. The insufficient knowledge of the plague, the lack of help from people, and the extinguished hope people felt during the period helped lead

Why was the Bubonic Plague (Black Death) so Devastating to European Society? The Bubonic Plague, otherwise known as the Black Death, was a huge epidemic in the mid-1300s. It killed off about 20 million Europeans within 1348 and 1351and was thought to originate from China and move westwards through means of infected fleas and rats through shipping and trade (Document 1). The plague was recorded in the spring of 1348 in Messina, Italy and the summer that followed, in England. The last region

The 14th Century was characterized by death and destruction in Europe. The Bubonic Plague had a devastating impact on European society because of its unprecedented nature, the immediate effect the disease had on the people of Europe, and the long-term effects on the continent. When the Bubonic Plague erupted, most Europeans had no idea what to think. Nothing like this disease had ever happened to them before, and there was very little knowledge about how to handle the ever-worsening situation.

The Bubonic Plague was an epidemic which tore through a developing and growing Europe. The lasting impact included the onset of the Dark Ages. The reasons why the Bubonic Plague was so devastating to European society include low sanitation quality, the continuing decline of public morale and the overall large number of lives lost. Each individual factor continued to depress the city allowing the plague to take complete advantage. One of the main reasons that the plague was so devastating was the

The Black Death was a devastating plague which broke out in Asia, Europe and Africa in the late middle ages (around c.1348-1353). The disease was carried by fleas on rats, and spread by coughing. The Black Death got it’s name from the black buboes that appeared on the victim's skin. The plague had a disastrous effect on the politics, economics and lifestyle of Medieval Europe. Once a victim had caught the disease they would be dead within five days. Around twenty five to thirty million people died

Knowledge in the Victorian Period vs. Knowledge in the 21st Century “But epidemics create a king of history from below they can be world changing, but the participants are almost inevitably ordinary folk, following their established routines, not thinking for a second about how their actions will be recorded for posterity” (Johnson 32). A hundred sixty years ago an epidemic disease began because of human’s insufficient knowledge on how diseases were caused. Many of these people in the Victorian

The Black Death The Black Death, also known as the Great Plague or simply Plague, or less commonly as the Black Plague, was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 75 to 200 million people, peeking in Europe from 1347 to 1352. The infection may take three forms: bubonic, pneumonic, or septicemic. This essay will discuss the effects The Black Death had on Medieval society as well as evaluating the responses. The Black Death arrived in 1348

John Snow, in which some would call a “Historical Giant of Public Health” (), was not only a widely famous anesthesiologist, but a renowned epidemiologist as well. Snow was, “widely recognized for his seminal work on the epidemiology of Cholera.” (). Cholera, which is an, “extremely virulent disease that can cause severe acute watery diarrhea.” (), was also found to cause almost immediate death to everyone it came into contact with. In 1854, an England town by the name of SoHo witnessed this first

Addison Christ 2/4/16 The Black Death In October 1347 the Black Death (also known as the Bubonic Plague) arrived in Europe at the Sicilian port of Messina. The Black Death is a very contagious disease and it killed more than 20 million people. It was the worst thing that the people saw in their time period. The shipmates that brought the disease to Europe were all extremely sick and could transmit the disease to anyone who came in contact with them. Not only did it cause death by a human

The Great Plague of London in 1665 was a horrific blow to Londoners. Before this plague would be at its end, anywhere from 65,000 – 100,000 people would be dead, 15 percent of London’s population. The Great Plague was an outbreak of the Bubonic Plague, a  bacterial infection caused by the Yersinia pestis bacterium, spread by the oriental rat flea, in the spring and summer of 1665. Bubonic plague is an infection of the tissues and organs in the human body that help carry away unwanted materials