Essay On Black Death
The Black death was a disease that spreaded over Western Asia, the Middle East, North Africa and Europe during 1346 to 1353 causing great human fatalities because it killed within a week.
It was not until centuries later, that people (Europeans) started calling it the Black Death.
Due to the underdeveloped techniques of science and antibiotics, people were not aware of bacteria, viruses and other agents of disease, therefore they thought it was God´s punishment.
The black death reached Europe by sea in October 1347 when 12 Genovese trading ships reached the docks in Messina , part of the Sicilia; the sailors were either dead or gravely ill.
They had similar symptoms to the flu: fever, diarrhoea and confusion provoked by the pain, but one …show more content…
Spread of the Black Death in the British Isles
After the plague infection is introduced in a horse by an infected rat flea, the first human cases of the illness will usually happen between two weeks and 26 days (maximum), the first deaths after 20 to 28 days.
The Black Death arrived in the British Isles, in the little seacoast town of Weymouth in the county of Dorset on the southern coast of England.
Historians do not agree when it was the exact date, they indicate the period of 21 June to 7 July and around the first of August as the time that the presence of the disease became apparent.
John Clyn, an irish friar wrote in his chronicle that the first breakout in Ireland was in Dalkey and Droghech, two small coast towns of the Pale, and people began to die in Dublin at the beginning of August 1348.
From Weymouth, the Black Death spread by great leaps along the west and east coast.
Cornered the Cornish peninsula quickly, moved to the Bristol Channel and spread to the coasts of Sommerset and Devon and in a very short time reached the city of Bristol, it also reached Gloucester, roughly 50 km north of Bristol.
The rains and the many rivers and waterways affected the spread, very
It was not until centuries later, that people (Europeans) started calling it the Black Death.
Due to the underdeveloped techniques of science and antibiotics, people were not aware of bacteria, viruses and other agents of disease, therefore they thought it was God´s punishment.
The black death reached Europe by sea in October 1347 when 12 Genovese trading ships reached the docks in Messina , part of the Sicilia; the sailors were either dead or gravely ill.
They had similar symptoms to the flu: fever, diarrhoea and confusion provoked by the pain, but one …show more content…
Spread of the Black Death in the British Isles
After the plague infection is introduced in a horse by an infected rat flea, the first human cases of the illness will usually happen between two weeks and 26 days (maximum), the first deaths after 20 to 28 days.
The Black Death arrived in the British Isles, in the little seacoast town of Weymouth in the county of Dorset on the southern coast of England.
Historians do not agree when it was the exact date, they indicate the period of 21 June to 7 July and around the first of August as the time that the presence of the disease became apparent.
John Clyn, an irish friar wrote in his chronicle that the first breakout in Ireland was in Dalkey and Droghech, two small coast towns of the Pale, and people began to die in Dublin at the beginning of August 1348.
From Weymouth, the Black Death spread by great leaps along the west and east coast.
Cornered the Cornish peninsula quickly, moved to the Bristol Channel and spread to the coasts of Sommerset and Devon and in a very short time reached the city of Bristol, it also reached Gloucester, roughly 50 km north of Bristol.
The rains and the many rivers and waterways affected the spread, very