Third Pandemic

In 1347 the Black Death has started. It was October when trading ships just pulled up after a long trip there the black sea. There were people on the docs to meet when something surprising has happened half of the people on the ships were dead and the other half that were alive were really ill the people on the docs tried to get rid of it but it was too late the next couple of years 20 million people in europe were dead. The bubonic plague impacted the european society by making people greedy and

The Black Death, as it most commonly is known, is the largest detrimental disease spread known to man. It originated in Asian countries during the 13th century and spread rapidly to the European population due to the “northernmost caravan route” coming from Crimea to Constantinople. From there the destruction began and the fear of death became a reality to everyone. This sickness is assumed to have taken half of the population during its time which in turn greatly affected the way of life. The medical

The reader knows all was not right in philadelphia during 1793. While reading the book “An american Plague”, the reader is informed about the number of mysterious deaths from an unknown fever. There are only a certain number of advanced doctors who are going to be able to figure the traits of the fever and come to a conclusion on what has caused it and what it is spread by. One of the doctors remembers when he was 16 that a plague occurring was the yellow fever, it was killing dozens of people rich

1) Describe the political and social conditions of Europe during the late 14th century. The political and social condition of Europe during the late 14th century was a time of struggle because of the absence of order and power. There was no centralized power In Europe. With the little power the kings had they began to struggle. There was also a great deal of violence and unlawfulness in Europe. Europe was also dealing with the Black Death. The plague didn’t just kill people it also disturbed …”agricultural

John Smith was an english soldier, author and explorer who wrote The General History of Virginia. In this book he speaks about the settlement of Jamestown. Unlike in Of Plymouth Plantation,written by William Bradford where he speaks about the settlement in Plymouth. From the excerpts we have read, I got to learn a lot about their differences and similarities. John Smith and William Bradford’s writing had a lot of similarities as well as differences. They both are based on a settlement in the

Plague and diseases were significant and devastating in history because they don’t have the medical system as the modern society. The Black Plague changed the European Society substantially. The disaster affected all aspects of life— depopulation, government corruption, economy decreased dramatically, etc. “The disease carved a path of death through Asia, Italy, France, North Africa, Spain, and Normandy, and continued eastward into Hungary” (The Plague in Florence). The black plague impacted the

What is now called the European Exploration is a period in the sixteenth and seventeenth century when explores went out to search for new land and trading routes. Factors such as economic, political, and cultural were the causes of the exploration. Before exploration in Europe, they experienced the Black Death. The Black Death was a bubonic plague cause by the spread of bacteria. The plague killed up to 30 to 60 percent of Europe’s population. After the Black Death Europe experienced a renewal

was so highly contagious that even a touch of bacillus germ could kill a person within a day. In just five years, the incredibly efficient disease killed 20 million people all over Europe, and the contagious diffusion resulted in the death of one-third of the population. The bubonic plague was eventually subdued, but traces of the same bacteria that caused it can be traced to a recent Ebola outbreak, and the underlying principals of that stimulus diffusion could potentially be profoundly hazardous

There was The Great Famine of 1315. It was a series of large scale crises that struck Northern Europe early in the fourteenth century from 1315 until 1322. It extended as far as Russia to Italy. The famine caused millions of deaths over the years and wipe out all of the growth and prosperity that was left from the eleventh to the thirteenth centuries. The Great Famine started out with bad weather in the spring of 1315 which causes global crop failures that lasted through 1316 until the summer harvest

for thousands of years and causes horrific symptoms. According to “Bubonic Plague” by Kathleen Scogna, the first documented outbreak was in 430 BC which hit Athens, Greece, while the second and most famous outbreak was in London in 1346 killing one-third of the population of Europe. The Bubonic Plague swept across the rest of the world with new epidemics from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries then died down and yet there are still small outbreaks in less developed countries. In the article