Black Death (Plagues)

Black Death killed almost 75 to 200 million people. It mainly spread due to rats and dead animals.

black death is Plague pandemic. It killed 75 to 200 million people. Thus it changed it.

The black death affected Europe's population and also its economy. The short-term consequences of the black death include a degree of socio-political disorganization. It also changed income and status relationships due to the enhanced economic position of newly scarce labor.

For many years, the prevailing belief was that stomach ulcers were primarily caused by stress, spicy foods, and an excess of stomach acid. Additionally, lifestyle factors such as smoking and excessive alcohol consumption were thought to contribute to ulcer development. However, this view changed in the 1980s when researchers discovered that a bacterium called Helicobacter pylori was a major cause of many stomach ulcers, leading to a significant shift in understanding and treatment. This revelation emphasized the role of infection rather than just lifestyle factors in ulcer formation.

The Peasants' Revolt, or the Great Rising of 1381 was one of a number of popular revolts in late medieval Europe and is a major event in the history of England. As you can see, the plague had outbreaks before that.

Coming out of the East, the Black Death reached the shores of Italy in the spring of 1348 unleashing a rampage of death across Europe unprecedented in recorded history. By the time the epidemic played itself out three years later, anywhere between 25% and 50% of Europe's population had fallen victim to the pestilence.

The nature of the first plague in China is unknown. We have no certain intelligence of the disease until it entered the western countries of Asia. Here it showed itself as the oriental plague with inflammation of the lungs; in which form it probably also may have begun in China - that is to say, as a malady which spreads, more than any other, by contagion; a contagion that in ordinary pestilences requires immediate contact, and only under unfavorable circumstances of rare occurrence is communicated by the mere approach to the sick.

From China, the route of the caravans lay to the north of the Caspian Sea, through Central Asia to Tauris. Here ships were ready to take the produce of the East to Constantinople, the capital of commerce and the medium of connection between Asia, Europe, and Africa. Other caravans went from India to Asia Minor, and touched at the cities south of the Caspian Sea, and lastly from Bagdad, through Arabia to Egypt; also the maritime communication on the Red Sea, from India to Arabia and Egypt, was not

inconsiderable. In all these directions contagion made its way; and doubtless Constantinople and the harbors of Asia Minor are to be regarded as the foci of infection; whence it radiated to the most distant seaports and islands.

poor understanding of Black Death. Misconceptions, gap between servants and masters.

The last bubonic plague occurred in the 1800's, and mainly took hold in Asia. This 'third plague' lasted well into the mid-1900's.

There were three strains of the Black Death.

The bubonic strain, that infected ones skin and pores. It would cause large boils. This was the most common strain. As far as I know, you cannot catch it from contact.

You could however, catch it from an infected flea that came from their person.

There was also the septic strain, that infected the blood, and could be passed via transfer of fluids.

And lastly, the pneumonic strain, that infected the lungs. This was contagious.

Specifically the poor side of towns.

When historians refer to "The Black Death," they mean the specific outbreak of plague that took place in Europe in the mid-14th century. The Black Death came to Europe in October of 1347, spread swiftly through most of Europe by the end of 1349 and on to Scandinavia and Russia in the 1350s. It returned several times throughout the rest of the century.

There was no cure or fixing of the Black Death. The Black Death is a blanket term for a period of the 14th century in which a powerful plague swept across Europe. There are three main types of plague. Historians are not sure which of these caused the Black Death or if it was a mixture of them all. The plague ran its course through the population and most people susceptible to it died. This lead to a reduction of 30% to 60% of the population in most areas of Europe. The plague receded and reappeared many time over the centuries. Other appearances of plague did not reach the epidemic level that is attributed to the Black Death.

In Modern times, plague can be effectively treated with medications, specifically anti-biotics. While plague is very uncommon in modern countries it still exists.

People immune to the black death were not affected.

To kill the remaining living viruses and bacteria.

Not to nitpick, but there were no countries during the Middle Ages. If you mean what modern-day countries were affected, then LOTS. Thought to have originated in China (where surviving records aren't quite as good as Europe's) the Death travelled through India, Mongolia, Russia, and the Middle East before sweeping through almost every country in Europe and North Africa. Poland was hit relatively lightly as were isolated areas of the Netherlands and Belgium.

There are references in some books about how to not get the Bubonic Plague or the "black death" Some say some robbers were going from house to house, stealing from the dead, and they never got sick. Some police or others caught them stealing, and said they would be taken to Court unless they said their secret of how to not get sick from the Plague. They said their secret was to peel and eat 2-3 cloves of garlic daily. Others tried that, and didn't get the plague. It's definitely an antibacterial healthy food-medicine, and that is why there are superstitions abounding that e.g. "if you carry a clove of garlic in your pocket, you are lucky", really, it was truthfully lucky if you had some to eat every day. Other superstitions say "its the work of the devil", but that was only said by the worst of the ignorant who didn't understand good health and hygiene, and it was taught to our class at school that in those days of the plague, anything that was not known, if it was new, even a new cure, was always called the work of the devil, they were just ignorant. People even in the last century before the millenium, laughed at Marconi, laughed at Einstein, and other great inventors.
Later on in history, some people have described Garlic, fresh organic garlic, as a fine anti-disease agent, it's antibiotic but better than that as it's so natural it does NOT have an effect that wears off later, like the doctors' penicillin etc.
In future, there are dark days still for humanity, and it will be worse. I'd advise people who can learn to grow organic garlic, plenty of it, and to get together in groups and grow it, they will be able to trade and barter for foods if they have that cure there, yet, it's even better to grow your own foods too.
I was told years ago the future is home-made medicines. I was told the pharmaceutical companies would run out of drugs to help doctors' prescribe. I found it hard to believe, but recently it was on the BBC News that some pharmacies ran out of the prescription drugs. I was told not to rely on electricity. Solar panels are the answer. And safe places for fireplaces, the types where the fire is made inside a fireplace with a door is good if you can grow your own wood to burn, and that can help heat your water too.



stop throwing your own filth everywhere and if you see a rat kill it cook it WELL and eat it...simple as that

The Black Death was believed to have been a plague from God in the Middle Ages, so people were convinced that they had committed serious sins. During the years of the Black Death's spread, people lived in a constant state of fear and repentance.

The Black Death stopped in Europe and North Africa after all Jews and Black communities were exterminated by Christian white supremacist who defaulted on loans and the Borgia became the top aristocratic family.

The Black Death took more deaths than the other ones and also it lived more many years than the other ones.

All the usual ones: greed, coveting, laziness, swearing, lying, not attending Mass, getting drunk, carousing, and generally "turning away from God."

human beings. besides that, hippopotomuses.

They had to pay really high wages. The black death killed millions! They had to pay 50% more than usually. Peasants were rich!

When the plague happened there were no labs or testing. They didn't know or understand the transmission of disease or anything about virus and disease.

The plague come from the rat and the rat have the fleas so the fleas have a black line inside the fleas that have the plague so the flea hops off the rat and goes onto the human at Asia and that person have the plague. And spread the plague everywhere from Asia to Europe.

It is difficult to know exactly how many died. Nowadays every death has to be registered. There were no such registers in the Middle Ages. How can historians find out? The Church was the only organisation to keep accurate records. Bishops noted down when a new priest was appointed to a parish church. In many areas half the churches had new priests in 1348 or 1349. In some monasteries nearly all the monks died. Probably the death rate in the Church was particularly high.

Priests visited the sick to comfort them, so were likely to catch the plague. Once the Black Death got into a monastery it would easily spread to all the monks. We know from church records that three out seven clergymen in the bishopric of Westminster died in the first half of 1349. Both rich and poor perished. Among the well-of was John Strattford, Archbishop of Canterbury.

Historians estimate that about one third or more of the poulation of England and Wales died. This would be over one million people.