When the fleas bit the rats they would then go to a human and bite them giving them the horrible disease they so fretfully waited for. They would never know that the fleas were biting them, let alone carrying the terrible Black Death. After five years, twenty five million people were dead. The disease was killing most of the people that lived in England. The first signs of the Black Death were swelling of the lymph nodes, mostly in the armpit, legs, neck, and groin.
The Black Plague was likely brought to Europe by fleas on rats that were carried by trading ships. The Black Death was a very gruesome disease. The victim’s skin would turn black in patches and inflamed glands would appear in the groin and armpit regions. With symptoms including vomiting, a swollen tongue, and splitting headaches, the Black Plague lead to a slow and painful death for its victims. The plague most likely started in China and then moved west to Europe.
Running sores covered the body and then the tongue turned black. Death would then follow swiftly. Millions died from this sickness, which is referred to as the Black Death or the plague. At the time, no one completely knew what had caused the plague. Today we know that germs and bacteria caused the sickness and we understand how they can spread from one person to another, but back in the medieval times, the time of the plague, people did not know this.
In medieval Europe, during this time, the epidemic drastically decreased the population in Europe. It had terrified the hearts of every person in Europe to know that an unexplainable disease, of that magnitude, was out there. The once positive outlook people had on the life of the thirteenth century had perished along with the many lives the plague took along with it. The mystery of the causes of the plague took over five centuries to uncover. Several unjustifiable phenomenon and myths were devised during this period concerning the causes of this disease.
Bubonic Plague The Bubonic Plague started in 1348. It was the worst pandemics in world history, which means that it is the worst recorded plague breakout. Yersinia pestis bacteria killed almost more than half of Europe’s population. Reducing the world population to 350 million, before it was 450 million people. The breakout had started in China and central Asia, then it was believed to be carried to Europe by ships.
Jean De Venette A Chronicle of the Black Death In the 1300’s the world was struck by a deadly disease called the Black Death. The Black Death was a horrific event that happened in past history. The people of Europe and all across the continent never knew what hit them. They suddenly became ill after witnesses a bright star appear out of nowhere into the night sky. One the star disintegrated the people of Florence Italy became violently ill.
There are many killers in the history of the world, like serial killers or murders, but nothing like The Black Death. This plague was fatal; it had no cure and no proves of its creation or origin. It’s frightening and scary. It arrived in Europe in October 1347 by twelve Genoese ships coming from a voyage though the back sea. Sailors abroad arrived dead or gravely sick, with mysterious black boils all over them, which gave this disease its name “The Black Death”.
These are the people of the towns that were members of guilds and usually specialized in a certain area of work. “In A.D 1348, the people of France and of almost the whole world were struck by a blow other then war.” (Venette 283). The black plague caused the outlook on life to be very pessimistic due to the economic failure, death rate and lost
People throughout Europe, Asia, & China were affected by it. 6. What actually caused the Black Death, was rats in the towns that carried fleas called yersinia pestis.These rats then transmitted the disease, which also was contagious to humans. If you got bitten by a rat or flea you would have the bubonic plague. 7.
Perhaps this so-called Ice-Age has something to do with the spread. Not only did the plague spread west, it spread in every direction, and the Asian nation suffered just as much as the European nation. In China, the population dropped from 125 million to 90 million in less than a hundred years. The