The Black Plague of Early 1300s Europe

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According to my research, the Black plague, also known as the “black death” was a huge disaster that spread from a town called Caffa into Europe in a small amount of time in the early 1300’s. The plague traveled on trade routes. The disease also passed to Italy, France, England, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, and, Poland as well. According to the book; Plague and Fire: Battling Black Death and the 1900 Burning of Honolulu's Chinatown , it also “occurred in china and killed millions of people.”

This disease was a negative impact on Europe it changed the way people were such as their characteristics, and the fight for survival turned people against each other, “ brother against brother”. “About 25 percent to 50 percent” of Europe’s population downgraded that took Europe 400 years to gain back population to how it was. There was also weakness in the economy because a small population has fewer taxes.

The infection transferred easily as breathing the air of an infected victim in some cases. The disease came in three different forms such as, Bubonic, Sympathetic, Pneumonic but all resulted from the same thing. Although the disease was rarely spread from human to human people were still frightened because it could spread from clothing to a cut in the skin. It also was contagious if you had close contact with a rat or had got bite by a flea.

The bubonic plague was the most common plague which resulted in "30 to 75 percent of deaths in the Europe". There were symptoms such as enlarged lymph on the arms, armpits, and neck. The disease got its name because bubo means enlarged lymphatic gland. The people who caught this form usually had headaches, nausea, pain in the joints, fever of 101 degrees or higher, and vomiting, but symptoms took 1...

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...e moment of plague sicknesses the sympathetic plague is still not treated today.

References

The Black Death, 1348," EyeWitness to History, www.eyewitnesstohistory.com (2001).

Bubonic Septicemic Pneumonic. Med tv

http://www.ask.com/bar?q=black+death&page=1&qsrc=121&ab=3&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.insecta-inspecta.com%2Ffleas%2Fbdeath%2FBlack.html

http://www.merck.com/mmhe/sec14/ch173/ch173h.html

http://www.righthealth.com/Health/What%20Is%20Clotting-s?lid=goog-ads-sb-8536643334

Books and articles: electronic versions

Plague and Fire: Battling Black Death and the 1900 Burning of Honolulu's Chinatown

Book by James C. Mohr; Oxford

Works Cited
The Black Death, 1348," EyeWitness to History, www.eyewitnesstohistory.com (2001).

Plague and Fire: Battling Black Death and the 1900 Burning of Honolulu's Chinatown

Book by James C. Mohr; Oxford

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