Causes Of The Plague
The Plague was a Magnificent tragedy that the people couldn't do anything about. “The Plague is a contagious bacterial disease characterized by fever and delirium, typically with the formation of buboes and sometimes infection of the lungs.”(-------) The main ideas about the plague in the paper is the causes, having the plague, and the biggest is the toll it brought in society. There are many causes of the plague. One is all of the bacteria from the plague. “The plague is caused by a bacterium, Yersinia pestis,mainly transmitted to humans by fleas from infected rodents, notably the black rat, Rattus Rattus”(Benedictow 1). The plague can be carried by the blood stream to the lungs and cause a variant plague that is spread by
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Family’s were being ripped apart from sickness and death. A tax collector had to bury his wife and his five kids after he watched them die. The toll on all of the towns were not even thinkable. In a town in France the people said that there had to be at least 10,000 dead rats out in the roads and fleas everywhere spreading the bacteria. In France 50,000 people died from the plague. Every church of every town would dig wholes every day so that they could put the body’s in the whole and they would dig put a few body’s. Add some earth then bury more bodies until it hits flat surface. Also Country’s had a lot of deaths and destruction. People said that it all started in central Asia where it then spread to eroupe from the passengers on the ship from Asia. The great plague of London killed 70,000-100,000 people. If you had the plague or were to be sick. Somebody would but a cross on your house door and write “Lord have mercy upon us”. In between the 14th and 15th century about 50 million people have dies in Europe. People started to block off towns so the plague couldn’t spread but they couldn’t stop it. People started to give up and just say it was the end. Norway also had about 30 waves of the plague. The culture changed a lot at the time; The plague started to take over more and more territory’s and was taking over the world. The plague of Justinian was spreading from Egypt to Europe. It also played a role in
Family’s were being ripped apart from sickness and death. A tax collector had to bury his wife and his five kids after he watched them die. The toll on all of the towns were not even thinkable. In a town in France the people said that there had to be at least 10,000 dead rats out in the roads and fleas everywhere spreading the bacteria. In France 50,000 people died from the plague. Every church of every town would dig wholes every day so that they could put the body’s in the whole and they would dig put a few body’s. Add some earth then bury more bodies until it hits flat surface. Also Country’s had a lot of deaths and destruction. People said that it all started in central Asia where it then spread to eroupe from the passengers on the ship from Asia. The great plague of London killed 70,000-100,000 people. If you had the plague or were to be sick. Somebody would but a cross on your house door and write “Lord have mercy upon us”. In between the 14th and 15th century about 50 million people have dies in Europe. People started to block off towns so the plague couldn’t spread but they couldn’t stop it. People started to give up and just say it was the end. Norway also had about 30 waves of the plague. The culture changed a lot at the time; The plague started to take over more and more territory’s and was taking over the world. The plague of Justinian was spreading from Egypt to Europe. It also played a role in