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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 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.

What is plagurism?

If you mean plagiarism, its different than the Black Death or Black Plague.

Plagiarism is the copying of someone else's work without giving credit and lying about it.

What methods were people using to ward off the plague?

Some of the strategies that were used to prevent people from having plague included quarantine and the use of separate hygiene facilities. People with plague could not use the same public baths with the population that was not infected.

How did the black death spread into villages?

Everyone panicked and fled to the nearest village. After this village is infected everyone from there fled. This keeps going on and on, ravaging villages.

How do people contract pneumonic plague?

Same way you can catch a cold :

Having contact with a person that has pneumonia by touching, kissing, eating or drinking after them etc. You can also catch it if your not covered in the winter.

Where did the black death first appear?

The plague bacterium occurs naturally in wild rats. During the 1320s the disease flared up in the Gobi desert of Mongolia. It gradually spread along trade routes, infecting much of Asia.

European merchants were trading with the East, buying spices and silks. It is likely that the plague moved with their trade caravans, travelling from Baghdad to trading stations in the Crimea. From there it rapidly spread across Europe.

What three ways the Black Death affected the economy of Europe?

Black Death created many new opportunities. These made its economy rise again.

What impact did the plague have on the art of the time?

There were major changes in the Style of Medieval Art during the Black Death ALONE... The Subject matter changed, The Color Schemes changed, and the Mood portrayed in the art changed as well... I am doing a paper about it for Junior High Freshman English, and I thought I could answer part of this that I know about to help you. But the mood became a morbid, pessimistic, obsession with Death and survival. The Subject changed the most I would say though because There was a leap from the display of Royalty in their best dressed clothes and holding swords in victory and doing great things but after they were portrayed in just tattered cloths and being part skeleton. They showed their fear of death and obsession of carnage in their art. And the Color I know changed in many ways to but I am still working on that part of research...

What are the differences between the Black Death and the Spanish Flu?

The black death or bubonic plague as it is also known, and smallpox, were two entirely different diseases caused by different types of germs, although they were similar in being highly infectious and highly lethal, causing millions of deaths.

What did people do to prevent the plague in the 17th c?

people used to kill themselves cuz they were so desparate to escape the pain of boubins

What are some words to do with plague?

Death, black, horrible, spreading, rats, fleas, dirty, gross, disgusting, awful, woeful, long, bad

What was the first location in the world to have the bubonic plague?

The Black Plague first hit Genoa in 1347 after a Kipchak raiding party from from China catapulted infected corpses into a Genoese Trading Centre in Crimea. It then proceeded to spread north and west reaching London and Paris in 1348. This information was obtained from World Book Encyclopedia.

How many people did the bubonic flu kill?

If this is referring to the black death between 1348 and 1350, it killed about one third of Europe's population at that time.

What is difference between pneumonic and bubonic plague?

Bubonic and septicemic plague are two of the three types of plague. The main difference between the two is that the bubonic plague cause extreme infection and swelling of the lymph nodes while the septicemic plague cause the body's clotting mechanism to stop.

What is enlarged lymph nodes of bubonic plague called?

Buboes are the enlarged lymph nodes that are noticeable in victims of bubonic plague. Buboes occur in the lymph nodes of the armpit and groin areas of the body.

How did the black death spread from messina to the rest of sicily?

The port of Messina is believed to be where ships from Genoa that carried the Black Death laid anchor. The plague than carried from the people on the ships to the people in Messina, and continued to multiply from there to spread throughout Europe.

How many people died in worcester from the black death?

When the plague first reached London, 40,000 out of 70,000 were killed.

Over the next 2 years as it spread throughout The United Kingdom, the plague caused over 2 million deaths.

How likely was it for someone to catch the black death?

in some cities during the height of the epidemic, 50% of the people died from it. so one in 2 people.

In the black death What were the different couses of the disease?

There was only one cause of Black Death, a bacterium spread by a flea. The flea lived on black rats and other rodents. At that time rats infested many of the houses of Europe, especially in the cities. They were not common in the countryside because farmers kept cats to keep rats away from grain. When people would find a ship with a dead crew with merchandise with live fleas, they would take the merchandise and sell it. That way, they spread the infection. Boats carried the infection to the ports of Europe. Rivers carried it to the inland cities. The fleas would infect rats. The rats would infect its fleas. The rat would die. Its fleas would move to other rats and to humans. The disease would go through the city killing most of the rats and the people. In England, the cities were decimated. A number of people left the farms. Many farms were turned into pastures. Many farmers moved to the city and became city dwellers. England underwent a great population shift.

What did the plague doctors different glass eye colour mean?

It defines the doctor's sexuality, even though London was very christian at the time it was their secret way of telling a patient that they were gay and were looking for a man. it also told if they took it both ways or if they were just

plain straight ;)