The Bubonic Plague
By Bailey Devine
Origin
The black plagues begin either in the fall of 1347 or the spring of 1348 differing on your sources. The illness arrived on fleas and black rats that came on ships. Before it struck Europe it had been found in China, India, Persia, Syria, and Egypt. The illness had probably gotten to Europe because of the trade the Europeans had done on the black sea. The main reasons the bubonic plague was called the Black Death was because of the black bumps that appeared on the victims skin and because one of the bubonic plagues carriers was a black rat.
The Symptoms
The symptoms of the black plague are:
· Boils that appear in the armpits, legs, neck or groin the boils varied in size from the size of an egg to the size of an apple.
· A high fever.
· Delirium vomiting muscular pains.
· Bleeding in the lungs.
· Mental disorientation.
· An extreme desire to sleep.
· The chills.
· Vomiting.
· Diarrhea.
· Bad back pains.
· Death.
Thought Causes From The Time
People in the middle ages thought it was a divine punishment meaning that,
They had sinned against God by being bad Christian for example being greedy, committing blasphemy, heresy, and fornication. They only way people thought to get Gods forgiveness were to become better Christians. They did this by purging their communities of the troublemakers, which they thought Jews were included so they drove out thousands out of Eastern Europe, and even worse they killed thousands more. This all started to worry the pope and not to mention the hundreds of thousands of people getting infected and dying from the plague.
They had sinned against God by being bad Christian for example being greedy, committing blasphemy, heresy, and fornication. They only way people thought to get Gods forgiveness were to become better Christians. They did this by purging their communities of the troublemakers, which they thought Jews were included so they drove out thousands out of Eastern Europe, and even worse they killed thousands more. This all started to worry the pope and not to mention the hundreds of thousands of people getting infected and dying from the plague.
Out Breaks
The plague out braked in Europe many times. It had also oft braked all over the world in this time period. Over the next hundred of years it had broken out many times all over the world and it had lasted for a while each time but most had not had as many casualties as the one that had started in the fall of 1347 or the spring of 1348 differing on your sources.
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