The black death
- 1. History
- 2. Introduction The Black Death was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history. The main reason for the Black Death is the plague theory. The bacteria Yersinia pestis was the bacteria that caused the black pleage.
- 4. Beginnings Started in China and travelled along the Silk Road and reached the Crimea. Oriental rat fleas living on the black rats, infected regular passengers on merchant ships and spread throughout the Mediterranean and Europe.
- 5. Now look at the first poster!!!
- 7. Desease The most commonly noted symptom was the appearance of buboes. another common symptom is the gangrene. Rashes and freckle-like spots was another sign, which was probably from flea bites.
- 8. Social impact The aftermath of the plague created a series of religious, social and economic upheavals. The people got scared and made them stay at home, like if they were in quarentine. The black plague killed 30–60 percent of Europe's population Reducing the world's population from an estimated 450 million to between 350 and 375 million in the 14th century. Poor people were the most affected of all because as they live in misery they get infected easily.
- 9. Economy The economy was affected of that of being enclosed it make a lot of people try to escape of this and run away from the country but this just make more people died because of the transmit the bacteria. Because of the enclosed people and the ones that were escaping the economy went severely down because there was no movement nor economic activities in the country.
- 10. Art and literature The Black Death had a profound impact on art and literature throughout the generation.
- 12. The rat and the Oriental fleas rat and fleas were the prime factor of the black death, the people try to exterminate the rats in many ways like: poisoned food, getting cats and killing them in any way they could.