7. 3 reasons of what the people thought caused the black death was that God was punishing Mankind for its sins, an unfavorable alignment of the planets, and they said it was bad air, and jews poisoning wells. 8. There were no real cures for the black death, because no one actually knew where it was coming from so they had to deal with it and hope to survive. 9.
They would likely infect the others on the boats, and when they reach places and mixed with the people there it would be “as if they had brought evil spirits with them.” This along with Black plague infected rats that traveled in the merchants’ bags on trade routes lead to the Black Death spread across Europe, and with it many cultural and economic consequences occurred because of the Black Death. The decay of Latin was a likely big effect to the cultural. With the die-off of many teachers and educated men that could keep the dead language it alive. As well as languages the painting of the time were darken by the thought of sudden death. The economic impact was enormous.
Many thought that it was sent from God; maybe as a punishment for their sins (this caused the Flagellants- people who whipped themselves, and thought this would take away their Planets were also blamed. Many other groups, such as the Jews, were also blamed. Jews and other minority groups were killed in some villages. Bad smells in the air are just some of the other things that medieval people blamed the Black
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.
This statement along showed how the everyday man was clawing for a way to be saved from the disease. Another instance of this would be the quote made by Samuel Pepys, English naval bureaucrat, Diary, 1665 (Doc. 13), “For nobody will dare to buy any wig, for fear of infection, that the hair had been cut off the heads of the people dead of the plague.” This quote shows how scared people were to purchase goods because it might have been dealt by those infected or those around others who had been infected. Not only did fear of the plague affect the local commerce, but other countries as well. An example of this would be when author Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year, 1772, described international trade by stating “Trading nations of Europe were all afraid of us; no part of France, or Holland, or Spain, or Italy
Dying is awful. But even worse is dying alone in fear and shame with a lie” (35). They didn’t hide, because of not to defend themselves, but to defend to family. In Bonang every people took AIDS very seriously and neglected the people who had AIDS. They did allow living the AIDS affected people in society, but they neglected them and stayed away from them.
People did not know that infected rats carried the disease. They thought it was a punishment from God for being wicked. They believed if you were bad, you would get the plague and
This epidemic was even more severe than in Europe, as nearly two thirds of the Chinese population would succumb to the disease and to death. The Black Plague was carried along trade routes, from East to West, striking India, Syria, Mesopotamia and eventually Italy and into Europe. Coming into Italy was a catastrophe that perhaps could have been avoided. The trade routes from East to West were in turbulent times, with various interests wanting to control the routes and thus secure the riches that came with it. Tartar forces were laying siege to the city of Kaffa, held by the Genoese in the Black Sea.
The affects greatly impacted the population and the future ways of life in Europe. One third of the population of Europe died (an estimated 75 to 200 million people). "The impact upon the future of England was greater than upon any other European country" (Cartwright 1991). I think the Black Death was the worst natural disaster in history because of the bubonic plague, the pneumonic plague, and the septicemia plague. Ships traveling along the trade routes were knowingly transporting rats but
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.