The Black Death is a time in medieval history that is to this day the worst demographic disaster in European history. The Black Death is the nickname of the disease “Yersinia Pestis” that hit the European world in the 1340 CE. This disease wiped out 80 million people total. The devastation of this disease makes the Black Death the most significant event that occurred in the later medieval period. The Black Death is the most significant event because of the devastating nature of the disease and the
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Monte’ Atkinson English 112-07 Ms. Suchanec 26 April 2013 Rough Draft The Black Death was undoubtedly one of the most devastating diseases that occurred during the middle ages. The Black Death‚ also known as the Bubonic Plague‚ was s worldwide epidemic that caused the death of more than 20 million people throughout Europe. The plague killed over a third of the entire population. However‚ I will include two book sources and two articles. Authors Jerrold Atlas‚ Barbara Tuchman‚ Graham Twigg‚
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The source is trying to argue that the Black Death was devastating but also had some benefits.It does this by putting out first hand sources of what some survivors wrote in the time or after the Black Death’s effects. The source gives accounts of three people in particular‚ GeoffreyChaucer‚ William Langland‚ the pope‚ and a group of people the “flagellants”. With all of these people there is an example of what benefit came out of their suffering of the Black Death.Geoffrey Chaucer experienced the
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number of victims and lasting social impacts‚ these vicious diseases have become widely known throughout society. Two of these ruthless diseases are the Black Death and AIDS. Despite these incidents having occurred over six-hundred years apart‚ they swept over the world very similarly‚ leaving millions of people infected‚ or dead. The Black Death was a plague caused by the bacteria known as Yersinia Pestis. Rats and other rodents are the primary source of the bacteria‚ making fleas which bite these
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The Black Death Plague The Black Death plague‚ also known as the Bubonic plague‚ attacked Europe in 1347. The Bubonic plague was one of the many pestilences that would attack almost the entire Eastern Hemisphere. The last plague attacked a European city‚ Marseilles in 1722. On 1347‚ the name âBlack Deathâ‚ or the âBubonic Plagueâ was not used. During that time‚ they called the plague the Pestilence‚ or the Great Mortality. As we can see‚ the Black Death Plague has been in existence
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Development of Ideas and Practices in Medical Surgery over the whole period c.1000-1650 how far can the Black Death be considered a Turning Point? Although the Black Death was one of the biggest catastrophes known in Europe‚ its short term influence was of little consequence. Despite there being many different ideas‚ practices and surgical procedures present during and after the Black Death‚ in the long term there was minute progression. In the period c.1000 – 1650 many distinctive turning points
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Mrs. Kelly The Black Death‚ or as most people know it today as The Plague‚ killed more than 20 million people in Europe and Asia in the Late Middle Ages. This horrific disease affected all aspects of life during the time. The population decreased by more than 60 percent. The Black Death got its name from the black boils that oozed blood and pus from all of its victims. These were called "buboes" and appeared black on the skin. "Blood and pus seeped out of these strange
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To what extent did the Black Death effect early modern Europe? Early modern Europe was a society that did not included the cleanliness‚ systematic function or technology that people enjoy in society today‚ it was an era of discovery‚ option and a boom of trade. The black death was a tremendous tragedy that swept across Europe and was responsible for the death of millions of people‚ this disease ‘ravaged the Christian and Islamic worlds‚ killing perhaps 40 percent of the population’ (Byrne‚ 2012)
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Arriving by ships carrying flea infested rats‚ the Black Death originated in the 1340s in China and spread west along European trade routes eventually arriving on the British Isles. Since the ships bringing goods and more resources to England‚ the Americas‚ and more places‚ were not clean and had unsuitable living conditions‚ disease broke out. (Unknown Where Did Black Death Start?) Anywhere the ship stopped left disease behind‚ and since it was fabricated by new types of bacterium and was isolated
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The Black Death‚ also known as the Black Plague‚ was a rapid plague that swept over Europe and Asia in the mid-1300s resulting in the death of millions of people. This disease is believed to have started in the Eastern parts of Asia‚ and it eventually made its way over to Europe by way of trade routes. Fever and “dark despair” characterized this plague. The highly contagious sickness displayed many flu like symptoms‚ but the victim’s lymph nodes would quickly become infected resulting in a vast and
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