black death chan Flashcards
how much of europes population did the black death kill? what does this say about the knowledge of medicine in the middle ages?
1/3.this tells us that people in the middle ages had very little medical knowledge on the black death
why were plague doctors’ masks shaped like a beak?
to store herbs, flowers and perfumes so plague doctors wouldn’t breathe in miasma
what is miasma and how did people think it was responsible for the black death
miasma is bad smells
people believed it caused the plague because they thought bad smells caused the plague, as bad smells caused an “imbalance”
what are the four humours
blood (sanguine), black bile (melancholic), yellow bile (choleric), and phlegm (phlegmatic)
whats bloodletting
barbers and other people bloodlet which mean they cut the wrist of the patient to let blood out as they believed it balanced the humour of blood (sanguine)
how long did it take for europe to get back the numbers from 1347
200 years desu >w<
how did the church lose power from the black death
people lost faith in the church as even priests were dying from the plague which made people question the church for the first time in history
how did the black death affect the feudal system?
peasants wages tripled due to labour shortages. also they revolted lmao
how did the plague start and spread
the plague started when a ship docked in messina, sicily, which carried dead sailors, rodents, and fleas. it spreaded mostly through trade roots
how the hell did the plague akshually start
yersinia pestis
