black death Flashcards
What is the black death?
The Black Death was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 75 to 200 million people in Eurasia.
What caused the black death?
From there, it was most likely carried by Oriental rat fleas.
When did the black death start?
The Black Death (October 1347 to c1352) did not eradicate a third of Europe’s population.
When did it originate and what areas where affected?
Breaking out in ‘the east’, as medieval people put it, it came north and west after striking the eastern Mediterranean and Italy, Spain and France.
How many people where killed?
Europe in three or four years, 50 million people died. The population was reduced from some 80 million to 30 million. It killed at least 60 per cent of the population in rural and urban areas.
What were the symptoms
Symptoms included swellings – most commonly in the groin, armpits and neck dark patches, and the coughing up of blood.
What remedies were used?
Medieval people believed that the disease came from God, and so responded with prayers and processions. Some contemporaries realised that the only remedy for plague
How did it spread?
The disease spread from animal populations to humans through the agency of fleas from dying rats. Plague bacteria stifled the vital organs of those infected.
Who was affected?
Old and young, men and women: all of society – royalty, peasants, archbishops, monks, nuns and parish clergy.
Was it one of occurrence?
No. There have been three identified so-called ‘pandemics’. First, there was a significant international epidemic in the sixth century AD.
Where did many of the people think it originated?
Baghdad
When did the black death come to England
1348
will it return?
In fact, the disease has never gone away. An outbreak in Surat in India in the early 1990s caused panic across the world. The death of a herdsman in Kyrgyzstan in 2013 from bubonic plague was wildly exaggerated in the media.
when did it rumor?
In 1346, rumors of a plague that started in China and spread throughout Asia, Persia, Syria, Egypt, and India reached Europe. All of India was rumored to have been depopulated
when did it ship land?
In November 1347, a fleet of Genoese trading ships landed in Messina, Sicily after trading along the coast from the Black Sea to Italy.
