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Black Death (Plagues)
The Black Death, an outbreak of bubonic plague, was one of the deadliest pandemics in Human History. It forever changed the face of Europe. It led to a new way of thinking and dealt a serious blow to the Roman Catholic Church.
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What was the importance of the black plague in Europe?
How in the heck was it important? It killed over 25% of the worlds population in 1348
What is the genre and culture of a animals sick of the plague?
The genre is a novel and the culture is Latin.
How did the black codes affect the freedmen?
It limited them in all that they did and gave them less freedom.
Black codes wer rules and restrictions on freedmen. It made them have to carry a pass to go places and limited them of many things.
Why did buboes develop on the body during the black death?
They are extreme swellings of the lymph nodes caused by an acute bacterial infection such as the bubonic plague (hence its name). They are most commonly found in the groin and under the armpits.
Did quarantine cure bubonic plague in the middle ages?
Quarantining someone only kept the virus from spreading, it did not purge the plague virus from their bodies. They would have most definitely died.
Do the doctors have any idea of what caused the Black Death?
The Black Death was characterized by buboes (swellings in lymph nodes), like the late 18th century Asian bubonic plague. Scientists and historians at the beginning of the 20th century assumed that the Black Death was an outbreak of the same disease, caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis and spread by fleas with the help of animals like the black rat (Rattus rattus). Once infected by the Yersinia pestis bacterium, it is estimated that victims would die within 60-180 days. However, this view has recently been questioned by some scientists and historians, and some researchers believe that the illness was, in fact, a viral hemorrhagic fever based on epidemiological interpretation of historical records of the spread of disease.
Some historians believe the pandemic began in China or Central Asia (one such location is Lake Issyk Kul) in the lungs of the bobac variety of marmot, spreading to fleas, to rats, and eventually to humans. In the late 1320s or 1330s, merchants and soldiers carried it over the caravan routes until in 1346 it reached the Crimea in South Eastern Europe. Other scholars believe the plague was endemic in that area. In either case, from Crimea the plague spread to Western Europe and North Africa during the 1340s. The total number of deaths worldwide is estimated at 75 million people, approximately 25-50 million of which occurred in Europe. The Black Death is estimated to have killed 30% to 60% of Europe's population. It may have reduced the world's population from an estimated 450 million to between 350 and 375 million in 1400.
The plague is thought to have returned every generation with varying virulence and mortality until the 1700s. During this period, more than 100 plague epidemics swept across Europe. On its return in 1603, the plague killed 38,000 Londoners. Other notable seventeenth century outbreaks were the Italian Plague of 1629-1631, and the Great Plague of Seville (1647-1652), the Great Plague of London (1665-1666), and the Great Plague of Vienna (1679). There is some controversy over the identity of the disease, but in its virulent form, after the Great Plague of Marseille in 1720-1722, the Great Plague of 1738 (which hit eastern Europe), and the Russian plague of 1770-1772, it seems to have disappeared from Europe in the 19th century.
How do you know rats had the plague?
rats carried flea's.
the flea's carried the plague
the people got the plague from the flea's but blamed the rats.
What nursery rhyme is associated with the black plague?
ring-a-ring of roses,
a pocketful of posies,
a-tishoo, a-tishoo,
we all fall down. Sweet scented flowers were thought to ward off diseases like plague, so folk carried bunches (posies) of them to sniff as they walked. One of the symptoms of plague is sneezing. Then, of course, sick people fell down.
How do you believe the plague traveled to Paris overland or along the shipping routes?
It traveled by ship, because they used ships to go many places that we use airplanes for now. It also traveled by human beings going from one place to another on foot or horses. It spread quickly due to the fact that the people did not understand how to prevent it and did not have any effective medicines for it. When a person died of the plague, their corpse often spread the plague, because many times the dead were not buried quickly due to so many people being sick. The priests would visit the sick and they spread the plague themselves that way, unknowingly. The people who were sick were not always quarantined so they had contact with people that they then gave the plague to. There were traveling bands of people who thought the way to stop the plague was to beat themselves with whips, and they spread the plague from place to place, because they went from town to town preaching that the people needed to repent and punish themselves in order for God to deliver them of this plague.
Why did so many priests die during the black death?
Because they stayed around the dying to give them the Last Rites, and so, were exposed continually to the disease.
How many people died in the Black Death in Asia?
The amount of people that died as a result of the bubonic plague is unknown - it came in hundreds (maybe even thousands) of outbreaks throughout europe, asia, africa, and later on the americas; each of these outbreaks killing thousands, hundreds of thousands, and/or millions of people. When the first outbreaks of the plague started in the fourteenth century, records weren't kept in most countries of the individual people or social stats. (ie population of a town, causes of death, etc.)
Could the plague have been transmitted by humans?
yes
well that's your answer......
...ok ill explain, the buboes (black spots found all over a victims body) bursted with a discusting smell, these contained the disease from the rats and could give others plague, yes.
Had people known the cause of the bubonic plague what might they have done to slow its spreads?
Black Death could have been prevented by stopping foreign contact. Also with measures of safety for pandemic.
Why is it so important to study the black death today?
people study the plague today because it was the worst, deadliest pandemic in history. it killed over 50 million people - a third of Europe . People want to know more about it because it killed so many people, and it came in 3 forms- bubonic, pneumonic and septicemic plague, all of them.. deadly.
Did you get boils when you got the black death?
The buboes generally appeared in the armpits and groin areas.
How could you stop the Black Death from occurring?
The black death was mostly cause of trade. If the trade was stopped, fleas and rats wouldn't get access to England. Therefore, the easier way to stop the Black Death is to stop the trade for a while.
When was the Black Death discovered?
In 2001, scientists at the Sanger Centre, Cambridge, UK succeeded in mapping the entire genome - the genetic map - of Yersonia (the bacteria that caused the plague) for the first time.
Where did the black death land in britain?
No one is completely sure. Prior to hitting England, it hopped along the Channel Islands during the summer of 1348, before finally landing in either Bristol or Dorset late of 1348.
It would have come in via Bristol or Dorset because they were important ports.
What happened to the law enforcement during the black plague?
black death caused crime rates to go higher. People did not abide rules.
well if you have the bubonic plague you could have an oporation or get tablets and a prescription from your doctor which might take 1 year to get ride of but if you leave it for to long you would die in a matter of 2-3 weeks.
This would be entirely dependent on which version of the black plague you mean.
Well the people started to find out where it was coming from and got rid of it, also the remaining of the people that were still healthy moved.
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Question should be "How" did the black death come to an end.
Why sounds like your almost sad that it ended...
Anyway... What the first guy said is not entirely true.
The real source of the plague was from the rats/flees/small animals, which argubly originated from china, traveled all the way to europe. causing people to cough at first, and start to develope these werid symptoms, and die within 3 days...
So to say "kill the source" is more half-assed answer...
Rich/aristocrates were able to survive from the plague, due to their isolation against the commoners, who carried the plague. The plague is beilieved to cause spread, due to immigration. (well my source are from wiki, so can;t really trust them)
People started to become immune to the plague, their body system started to become immune and to stop them from getting it..
This happens all the time. Like how small pox or "white men diseases" killed 2/3 of the Native Americans in the Americas during the 15 or 16th century. People eventually become strong or build immune to that type of illness...
Whatof was the social impact of the black plague?
•With two thirds the population gone people often had no family or friends left.
