Black Death In The 14th Century

Awhile before the horrendous events of the Black Death occurred, there was The Great Famine of 1315. I had not previously heard of or known about this period of history before writing this paper. At the beginning of the 14th century, the population in Europe had steadily been growing so large that there was no room for any crop failure or shortage. However, climate change in the spring of 1315 gave them a wet spring that proved to be harsh on the people until the summer of 1317. The people were weakened in health and shake up quite a bit after this. About 10-15% of the population had died from pneumonia, bronchitis, tuberculosis, or other similar illnesses due to a weakened immune system. They were able to recover, slowly, afterward (“The Great Famine 1315-1317”,
Between cities these numbers varied from twenty to one hundred percent (“Satan Triumphant: The Black Death”, 2014). It was Highly infectious and ended up wiping out half of Medieval Europe’s population over the course of seven years (“Secrets of the Black Death”, 2011). I’m sure everyone has learned about The Black Death at least vaguely in one or two history classes throughout their lives, I know that personally the topic is well exhausted in my head. So I focused more on the medical and scientific things that we did not go into detail during other classes. It would be quite interesting to study more in depth in biology or another similar