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And the darkest times were the late middle ages. The reason why the late middle ages is considered so dark or not a good time to live in the middle ages is because of the Black Death. The black death is the worst catastrophe besides the children’s
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The disease spread from nation to nation, killing millions of people and seriously affecting their lives especially Britain. It is thought to be one of the most devastating plagues in human history. It is thought to have begun in the mid 1340’s in China, caused by dirty rodents who had infected fleas. The fleas travelled through Asia and lived on Rats and all sorts of other creatures. Some of these creatures became passengers on merchant ships that sailed to Europe.
Plague It is little surprise that the plague was the most dreaded disease of Shakespeare's time. Carried by fleas living on the fur of rats, the plague swept through London in 1563, 1578-9, 1582, 1592-3, and 1603 (Singman, 52). The outbreaks in 1563 and 1603 were the most ferocious, each wiping out over one quarter of London's population. Lucky Elizabethans would contract the basic bubonic plague with their odds of survival around fifty percent. Symptoms would include red, grossly inflamed and swollen lymph nodes, called buboes (hence the name bubonic), high fever, delirium, and convulsions.
The Black Death was on of the most severe epidemics in history. In 1347 A.D., this great plague swept over Europe, ravaging cities and causing widespread hysteria and death. The Black Death is estimated to have killed 30% – 60% of Europe's population, reducing the world's population from an estimated 450 million to between 350 and 375 million in 1400. This has been seen as having created a series of religious, social and economic upheavals, which had profound effects on the course of European history. It took 150 years for Europe's population to recover.
The Plague greatly affected the medieval world. It killed 25 million people, including a third of Europe's population. One of the economic effects caused by the Plague was inflation. Trade was dangerous and local goods weren't being produced as much because the number of workers decreased greatly. The prices went through the roof.
The only way of escaping of the disease was to move from the city to the country. Even though that sounded realistic and smart, this option was only available to the people will the wealth to afford to travel to the countryside. This plague from people all around Europe and of course, these also caused a major depression in economy. No one wanted to buy anything since they were either very sick or afraid of the disease. It is said that at that time, half of the people you see on the street today will be dead tomorrow, that was how fatal the plague was.
What impact did Plague have on England during the period 1348-1500? Yersinia pestis, more commonly known as ‘the Black Death’, was responsible for the death of up to 200 million people globally, including at the very least “over one-third of the population” of England. Clearly such a major historic event had many widespread impacts. These range of impacts range from impacts on popular culture and art, including the eerie and spectacle late-medieval fascination with death in images such as the Danse Macabre¸ to widespread persecution of minorities, such as the Jews, blamed for transmitting the disease. However this essay will focus on what it believes to be the greatest impacts the Plague had on England – the impact on demographics, the impact on social mobility, and the impact on religion.
  James L. Myers Professor Fike World Civilizations 22 July 2012 The Black Death: The Bubonic Plaque of 1300-1400. The Bubonic Plaque, also known as the Black Death has had a profound effect on human history since the ancient times. The Black Death is a highly contagious disease that causes death within one to three days of contracting it, depending on which type a person has. It can be air born or can spread to humans through fleas that have bitten black rats that are infected with the Bubonic Plaque. When a human comes in contact with the fleas and rats that are infected and are bitten by these infected animals, they also become infected.