History: The black death (14th century)
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- Black death
- devastating epidemic
- bubonic plague, spread by bites fleas and rats carried on ships, caused headaches
- followed with pus and sweeping on skin
- pneumonic plague, airborne- spread of coughs and sneezes. attacked lungs, making painful to breathe- causing cough blood
- bubonic plague, spread by bites fleas and rats carried on ships, caused headaches
- people didn't know what caused black death
- believed judgment form God, cause of disease was a sin. did prayers and fasted
- blamed imbalance humours. bloodless and purged
- miasma believers carried strong smelling herbs or lit fires- purify air
- some people carried charms or used magic potions
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- Tried preventing disease
- thought you catch plague from dead bodies so insisted of new cemeteries away from houses
- thought plague spread by human contact
- social change
- fewer workers around, could demand higher wages
- cost of land decreased and even peasants bought some land
- government created laws that stopped peasants moving around country
- black death might have helped cause peasants revolt and collapse of feudal system
- devastating epidemic
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