first seven chapters of The Great Mortality author John Kelly discussed the Black Death movement from Asia to Europe‚ with trade playing a vital role in the spread of the plague. Seven hundred years later‚ it is the greatest natural disaster in human history. “Worldwide the disease has killed an estimate 200 million people”. Kelly described that “in a century when nothing moved faster than the fastest horse; the Black Death had circumnavigated Europe in a little less than four years”. No other of
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The Black Death‚ which started in 1348 and spread all over Europe‚ especially the cities of Manchester and London in England. Many issues arose in these societies over time. The bad health conditions‚ decrease in population‚ and the opening of job opportunities‚ all due to the plague‚ were both negative and positive issues that led to the industrialization and modernization of these cities. The rapid population growth in Manchester and London caused the the health conditions to become more
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The demographics of medieval Europe grew to an unprecedented scale. The population had grown to the brink of starvation. Only under the best conditions would the field ’s yield enough to feed the population. The Black death struck in 1347 and decimated the European population. The black death was a necessity to prevent overpopulation and economic decline. The economy of the fourteenth century was in a state of decline. The population boom along with the shortage of food was leading Europe down a road
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Jordan Malone Accelerated English II 3 May 2013 The Black Death As a pandemic that was able to spread from country to country and kill millions in the process‚ the Black Death‚ also known as the Bubonic Plague‚ was able to leave a mark on almost all of the Eastern hemisphere. Additionally and ironically‚ the impact the Black Death had on many countries was both negative and positive. While killing millions and destroying economies‚ the Bubonic plague also helped improved health care and sanitation
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Awhile before the horrendous events of the Black Death occurred‚ there was The Great Famine of 1315. I had not previously heard of or known about this period of history before writing this paper. At the beginning of the 14th century‚ the population in Europe had steadily been growing so large that there was no room for any crop failure or shortage. However‚ climate change in the spring of 1315 gave them a wet spring that proved to be harsh on the people until the summer of 1317. The people were weakened
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The Black Death changed Europe by making the people lose faith in the church‚ which makes the government collapse. A big reason why the government collapsed‚ as explained by Anne Chapman was that “Some have seen popular loss of confidence in Church and political authorities as contributing to greater individualism and to a rising interest in personal‚ mystical religious beliefs”(Anne Chapman). In the middle ages many people looked towards religion as an answer to their diseases and problems‚ so when
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The Black Death‚ one of the biggest plague. The Black Death happened between 1346-1353. It was caused by rats and fleas. The Black Death was important because it was an epidemic of a disease called Bubonic Plague. It was able to kill 38 million people. The black death was one of the biggest epidemic to hit mankind. It was given the name ‘Black Death’ because people who were infected‚ were cover in black boils. For example‚ “Early in 1340s‚ the disease had struck China‚ India‚ Persia‚ Syria‚ and Egypt”
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The Sanitation Problems of the Black Death The bubonic plague is a bacterial disease that is considered one of the most lethal in history. Recorded pandemics of the plague reach back to 541 A.D. and minor epidemics can still be found around the world (Plague). The plague consists of a bacterium called Yersinia pestis. This bacterium has the ability to mutate quickly and can easily destroy the immune system of the infected person‚ “it does this by injecting toxins into defense cells such as macrophages
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David. 1997. The Black Death and the Transformation of the West. Cambridge‚ MA and London‚ England: Harvard University Press. Herlihy argues that the Black Death paved the way for an explosion of technological advances‚ greatly altered religion and theology‚ and completely transformed European society as a whole. The Black Death was catalystic for the transformation from a feudalistic society‚ to Europe as we now know it. Herlihy argues that the havoc wreaked by the Black Death and subsequent diseases
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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
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