The Black Death

Question 0

In what years was The bubonic Plague?

Answer 0

1347 - 1351

Question 1

What is another name for the Black Death?

Answer 1

The Bubonic Plauge

Question 2

What are some preconditions?

Answer 2

Over 90% farming - 3 field system = they ate more = population explosion 
  • 1315 - 1317 = The Great Famine - estimated 15-25% was killed. 
Affected church (Catholic), government - no aid to provide, left people vulnerable.

Question 5

What is under causes of the black death in your notes?

Answer 5

The disease cycle:
Bubonic plague - gut of flea - rat - human infected
• Symptoms - 1. Bubonic stage - fever, bleed, seizures, feel generally ill
2. Pneumonic stage - gets into lungs
3. Septicemic stage - get into blood - turn purple then black
• Came From - The Black Sea Region - then Italy( Big port city) , spread to rest of Europe through trade routes.

Question 6

What are some popular remedies of the bubonic plague?

Answer 6

• Aromatic Amulets
• Moderation - stop doing extremes
• Doctor’s robe
• leaching - suck disease from bulbous
• Lancing a Bulbous
• Self Flagellation - whip themselves - eventually church banned it
• Anti-Semitism - prejudice against Jews - Judenhut and Pogroms
• Seclusion and Flight - best preventative

Question 7

What was the culture like during the Black Death? What works came about?

Answer 7

Death was on everyones' mind, it became the norm. 
   Works that came about were: 
 • Ring around the Rosy 
 • The Decameron 
 • A Little Macabre Ditty

Question 8

What were consequences of the Black Death?

Answer 8

• Depopulation - 25 million around
• Agricultural
• The noble, land holding elite lost the most.
• Social
~ ENGLAND:
• Statute of Laborers = limited wages to lower class, prevented them from leaving village/ land
• Peasants Revolt (1381)

    ~ FRANCE :
          - taille 
             - Jacquerie 
        •urbanization 
        • containers of monarchy