The Black Death
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- Created on: 07-11-22 17:26
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- Black Death 1348
- Bad living conditions
- The fragmentation of Ancient Rome lead to worse public health standards
- More people started living in towns so they became more crowded meaning disease spread quickly
- Rivers were used for sewage and drinking water meaning there was a lack of clean water
- Treatments
- Prayers to appease God
- Using herbs to keep safe from miasma
- Purging, Vomiting and bloodletting to keep humours in balance
- Move away or avoid infected
- Causes
- Caught from dead bodies e.g. Winchester build cemeteries away from people's homes
- Impact
- 30-45% of British pop died
- Killed lots of workers so peasants asked for higher wages, cost of buying land fell- contributed to peasants revolt
- Bad living conditions
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