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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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How did the Mongols influence the spread of the plague?
Unintentionally if at all. The black plague is caused by the bacteria Yersinia pestis. These lived in the bodies of Oriental rat fleas that lived on black rats. These black rats lived on merchant ships that traversed Europe's waters. This is how it spread once it arrived in Europe. How it got to Europe is not proven but it is believed that the fleas made their way from China to Europe by way of the silk road sometime in the early 14th century. This coincides with the western encroachment of the Mongol Empire into Eastern Europe. The Mongol Empire reached the Mediterranean around 1279 and naturally any livestock they brought with them would have been infested with fleas. However it could just as easily have reached Europe by way of the Indian Ocean and through Arabia or Egypt along trade routes said fleas living on ship board rats that may very well have traveled by way of the Indian and Pacific Oceans all the way from southeast Asia.
What time of year did the bubonic plague spread the fastest?
It spread faster in the warmer months of Spring, Summer, and early Fall because rats and the plague-spreading fleas they carried were more active then.
Did the bubonic plague affect education?
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What was the impact of the black death on the people's attitudes towards life?
the black death was a fatal disease but it also brout the people together and helped people get jobs.
Did only poor people catch the plague?
Rich people left towns and cities to get away from the plague. Poor people did not have that option so more poor people died of the plague.
What are the side effects of using black cumin seed extract?
There are no known precautions or side effects except possible allergic reaction.
Why is 'a plague on both your houses' important?
Mercutio, from the play by William Shakespeare: Rome and Juliet
How did the black death influence he ecosystem?
The landscape became depopulated and was not cared for properly, so it reverted to nature in many places.
How did doctors attempt to treat people ill with bubonic plague what remedies did they use?
in Europe the most common treatment was to bleed the patient, it did not work, just made them weak, and die. nostrotamus lanced the boils and use fungus (had antibotic proporties, worked more time than not.
What other effects did Europe have on Black Death positive or negative?
both positive and negative effects were there. It killed economy, but brought social changes.
Rate or degree of damage to Yersinia pestis?
It pretty much wiped out most of the world's population during the middle ages.
How many people died everyday from the black plague?
At its worst the Black Death killed 600 Venetians a day; 100-200 Londoners a day... "They died by the hundreds, both day and night." -The Black Death is estimated to have killed between a third and two-thirds of Europe's entire population!
Black Plague or Bubonic Plague started in Europe around 1347. It was a terrible disease that was carried out with black rats and fleas. This terrible disease was affected the Medieval society. It was a terrible because so many peasants died and that nobody was left to farm the land and do the daily work.
The Plague (or called "Black Death") was an epidemic that struck Europe. People from China and Mongolia came with infected fleas carried by rats going aboard ships and that were transported to Italy, Greece and France; when the ships docked, the rats left the ships entering cities bringing the fleas and disease with them. In 1348 the virus, known as the Yersinia pestisbacterium and until 1351 the bacterium had killed 1/3 of Europe. Leaving fewer farmers and other people that held jobs that were important to the economy. The Europeans blamed the Jews for the plague by poisoning the water but it really was caused by flea bites. Other break outs occurred between 1451-1721.
Plague is still around today in small numbers and is treated with antibiotics.
When was the cure for the black plague found?
The development of antibiotics in the 1930s made a large number of diseases like Bubonic Plague easily treatable. The first mass produced antibiotic was Protonsil developed in 1932.
What caused the famines in the 14th century?
the hundred year's war
the black plague
the increasing financial pressures on European rulers
the weakening of feudalism in Europe
What happened in the village of Eyam in Derbyshire during the Plague?
The village of Eyam during the Plague of 1665, isolated itself from the outside world to help slow down the infection. A number of other measures were taken to also slow infection one of which was for family members to bury their own dead. Despite these measures, 14 months later when outsiders arrived, only around 80 people of the original village total of about 350 survived.
Among this number was Elizabeth Hancock who never became ill despite burying six children and her husband in eight days (the graves are known as the Riley graves), and the unofficial village gravedigger Marshall Howe also survived, despite handling many infected bodies, as he had earlier survived catching the disease.
Which was not a result of the plague?
You were very probably given choices to pick from that you do not tell us about. A thousand things are unrelated to the Black Death, so we need the options you were given.
Can the bubonic plague be spread through the air?
Not usually unless the person who had bubo had started developing septicaemic plague.
septicaemic- this plague (there are three different types) affected the lungs and was transmitted from human to human.
What was the 1st European country the black death came to?
It is believed to have hit China or Central Asia first and then spread to Europe.
People back then did not have much knowledge pf medicine back then, one thing they used to do was to let the blood which was when they would cut you and let u bleed. They did this because they thought your body had a balance of 3 or 4 body liquids and that when you had too much of a liquid it would make you ill, so they would try to balance it out.
There was a load of really weird stuff people would do to try and cure the plague/black death. Including tying dead pigeons to your feet and rubbing animal fat on your chest. Since the black death was so wide spread different countries would have some different things aswell. People were scared and would try anything to cure themselves from trying out the cures in myths, to making stuff up themselves which they thought might help.
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What not to do when you have the plague?
You would not want to have contact with any other people, as you might infect them. Today the few cases of plague that occur are treated with antibiotics.
What did people do when the black plague started killing them?
The Black Death is thought to have originated in the dry plains of Central Asia, where it travelled along the Silk Road, reaching Crimea by 1343. From there, it was most likely carried by fleas living on the black rats that traveled on all merchant ships, spreading throughout the Mediterranean Basin and Europe.
