The Black Death is one of the most deadly epidemics in human history‚ and is taught in schools throughout the world. Though it is most known to have killed 50 million people in Europe it also ravaged Asia killing 25 million people. The Black Death is a type of plague called the Bubonic plague. Encyclopedia Britannica defines the Bubonic plague as‚ “an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. Bubonic plague is the most commonly occurring type of plague and is characterized by the
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Baccaccio Describes Black Death Around the 12 ro 1300s‚ Europe and Chinas population took a major hit in decreation following what is now called Black Death. Black Death killed millions when it hit Countries and was one of the most devasating plagues of time‚ dropping Chinas population from 123 million to 65 million and Europes from 70 million to 45 million. In 1348 Giovanni Boccaccio decsribes what Black Death did to the lives of those who were infected in Flourence. Black Death; started with boils
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It’s well known how devastating the Black Death was for Europe in the XIV century and that reached the maximum point between 1346 and 1361‚ killing one third of the continental population. From the big terror that provoked this unknown disease‚ people inclined to think that this was a supernatural occurrence. The Black Death was considered a divine punishment because of mortals sins. In plain desperation‚ guilty people were searched to calm this divine rage. It was told that Jews and lepers poisoned
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The Black Death wreaked havoc across most of medieval Europe for nearly a decade. While in the modern age‚ we know that the disease originated from fleas carried on the backs of rats‚ the cause of the pandemic remained completely unknown to the people of Europe from a period between 1346 and 1353 AD. As the Europeans were overwhelmingly Catholic at the time‚ a historian can make the argument that Europeans believed that the Black Death was
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The Black Death or the bubonic plague was one of the most deadly disease of our time. The Black Death took place between 1348 and 1351. It killed about one third to one half of the population in Europe. It only liked warm weather; therefore it would die out in the winter‚ but come back strong in the summer. When it would infect a victim it would only take a matter of days to kill him or her. The Black Death would kill so many people so fast that they would dig big pits and put all the dead in a hole
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Although most historians the Black death as being one of the most devastating events in human history‚ it could also be argued that the Black death changed Europe for the better. The black death is a disease that formed on a victims body. Black death is also called Black Plague because most scholars believe struck Europe was ̈Plague ̈. The plague took pneumonic and septicemic forms. The black death was an epidemic of bubonic plague‚ a disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis that
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Thesis: The Christians and Muslims had different responses to The Black Death. The Muslims and Christians responded to the Black Death in many different ways. The Christians thought of it more as a curse and the Muslims thought of it more as a blessing. In document four‚ the first paragraph is explaining how the Christians think that they have been infected with the plague because it is the reward for their sins. In the next paragraph‚ it states that the plague is a blessing from God for the
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The Black Death was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history‚ it resulted in the deaths of about 75 to 200 million people in Europe in the years 1346–53. The cause of this sudden eruption of the plague is not exactly known. From the Gobi desert‚ it spread out in all directions. The plague then spread eastward to China. During the expansion of trade during the Early and High Middle ages‚ trade routes with China were strengthened and ventured greatly. European traders‚ particularly those
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The Black Death started in 1347 and raged on for some years‚ wiping most of Europe as it spread. Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) wrote of the plague’s symptoms: swellings or tumors in the armpits and groin‚ which led to blackness on different parts of the body. There’s no doubt that the Europeans had their own opinion on the cause of the plague and how to contain it. The Black Death was a plague that very unfamiliar to the victims. As a result‚ they had different beliefs on the cause of the plague;
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deadly disease and leaves your town with very few people‚ that happened in the Middle Ages. The Black Death was a deadly disease that can kill people in 2 days. Feudalism is a political structure that was a way to pay taxes and work to get food. The Black Death was one of the reasons for the decline of feudalism because it killed many people in the system and didn’t matter what social class you were in. The Black Plague was one of the major issues that led to the decline of feudalism. The Plague started
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