What Are The Causes Of The Black Death

The Black Death was the deadliest disease known to man. The Black Death first came from the shores of Italy in 1348. The plague came from merchant ships which came from middle-east and Asian. Most sailors on board were dying from this disease and a few days after arriving in west Europe, many peasants and poor people in the shore cities were immediately dying as well. The Black Death was very deadly and it hit anyone who wasn’t clean or people who have animals with the disease. Even though the black plague cannot be transmitted among humans, the black plague occurs when fleas feed on the blood of infected rats and insects. The fleas then pass the disease when they attack animal and then the animal gives it to the human. The infection
enter in the body when it’s transmitted through a virus or coughing or through a cut blood. The Black plague is called like that because from the swellings that appear on the human neck, groin, and armpits. This will suddenly become very painful and swollen, especially in the groin. Then, the skin open into two and oozes pus and blood. Blood also comes out of the men urine which smells horribly. These tumors could be as small as a lemon or as big as an orange.
When the plague first came to Europe, people panic.
In hopes of survival, many people began to leave everything behind like what they had and moved to small cities and country sides in hope of fleeing from the Black Death. Fathers abandoned their children, wives and children abandoned their dad/husband, one brother to sister. Some fled to villages, others to villas in order to get a change in air. Where there had been no plague, however, most who fled carried the disease and if it was already there, it increase the rate of the spread of the Black Death. This horrifying plague caused many people mostly children some traumatic
event. A lot of Christians who witnessed the outrage and damage that the plague did, thought that it came from the Jesus; like a punishment from God, and that the Jews had poisoned the wells and groundwater, as people in the 1400’s continued to and run away from it and continue to spread from this disease and at this time in history. Many Christians persecuted Jews in Europe because they needed to blame someone for causing the outrage. Some other Jews were blamed them for bad luck and even bad weather. Other people thought it was the end of the world had come, The Jews were even allow to work in many towns and were welcome in any of the western European cities and others Jews were killed. This cause many Jews to leave Western Europe and go to the eastern side.
Also at this time in history, the Catholic Church also started to suffer.
Before the Black Death, the Church had millions of followers. However, when the plague came people left the Church and blamed them for this disease. But the Church had no way to explain for the chaos. So when the bishops and priests could not give them the answers the people wanted, the Church began losing spiritual authority over its people. As the Church lost spiritual authority, many from the clergy began to leaving. Many clergy abandoned their Christian duties and fled. Many of the Churches with the finest leaders were also leaving and some even moved away to avoid the problems they were facing. Since many head officials were parting, the Church panicked and began aggressively recruiting others to fill the ranks. As the Nuns, Monks, and Friars continued to die off. The Church was critiqued on a daily basis, and people began to treasure worldly things and turned their backs on God since they believed God was punishing them for no reason but other thought caused of their sins. As people began to stop believing in God, many turned towards the lords with the hopes they could give some support and an answer to the outrage. In conclusion, the unfortunate loss of nearly 50 million people was the catalysis to social change throughout Europe, in the aftermath of the Black Death in the 14th century can be seen the seeds of our modern civilization, rising from the ashes of decimation like the proverbial
phoenix. But if records are examined closely enough, the start of the change was already in the air across Europe and no matter how hard Kings and Emperors tried to stop this change the march towards progress was inevitable.