Black Death/Bubonic Plague
By Alex Treboni
The Start of the Black Death/Bubonic Plague Burning the infected
The Black Death/Bubonic Plague was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history. Bubonic plague started in the early 1300s. The Bubonic plague started in China and quickly spread to Europe. The scientific name for Black Death is Yesinia Pestis. This disease reached Europe by twelve Genoese trade ships that docked at the port of Messina after a long way through the Black Sea. Most sailors aboard the ship were dead by the time they got to Europe.
How the Black Death/Bubonic Plague Spread
The Black Death mainly effected rodents at first, but then the fleas got infected by the rodents and transferred the disease to the humans. Bubonic Plague is a zootomic disease; which means it can spread for animal to human. The disease got its name by one of the symptoms of the disease it started, as red patches on the skin they swell up and turn black once they are dead. Lungs are the primary part of the infection. Some of the symptoms are high fever, buboes, extreme rash, difficult breathing, bloody mucus, lymph nodes is a main one (buboes) an oval shaped organ.
Plague Patient
When plague is untreated you die within a few days. Some cities lost all inhabitants, 80,000 people died in 7 months. The social and economic effects of the plague people abandon their families people fled towns and shut themselves of from the world. The peasants became a little more empowering. The economy became abrupt since it was so hard to produce goods through trade. The prices of goods skyrocketed once the Black Death hit. The farmers were afraid of the black death so they shut down the farms, which made the food extremely overpriced so the main cause of death for peasants is starvation.
The Four Horsemen
The religious interpretations of the cause of the plague were that the Medieval understanding of the black death revolved around a book of revelation and its notion of the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse. Pestilence, war, famine, and death the christians used this to accept the horrible disease taking over Europe.
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