The Black Death- Summary
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- Created on: 09-12-15 09:14
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- The Black Death
- Factors
- Poor Medical knowledge
- Doctors did not understand disease.
- Poor Public Health
- No system of drains, sewers or rubbish collection
- Rats and germs thrived in these conditions
- No system of drains, sewers or rubbish collection
- Bad Harvets
- After 1300, there was a climate change and harvests failed.
- Hundred Years' war armies used a tactic called 'Chevauchee'. Soldiers destroyed houses and crops
- After 1300, there was a climate change and harvests failed.
- Global Trade
- Merchants were trading worldwide.
- Historians believed that it originated in China, and followed all trading routes
- Merchants were trading worldwide.
- Rats
- Historians believe that the black death was caused by different strains of the bubonic plague.The plague lived on fleas which lived on black rats
- Poor Medical knowledge
- Medieval Medical Knowledge
- no knowledge of germs
- At best based upon ancient Roman and Greek ideas
- The Four Humours
- Balancing the four humors to make a person better
- Basic tools to diagnose and treat illness
- Release evil spirits by trepanning
- Drilling a hole into someone's head
- Medieval beliefs of causes
- The movements of the planets
- a punishment of God
- 'Miasma'
- Bad smells/air
- Enemies/ Jewswho poisoned wells
- Staring at a victim
- Wearing pointy shoes
- Strangers to villages
- Volcanoe fumes
- What the actual plague was
- Bubonic plague
- Black Buboes or swelling in the groin, armpit or neck
- Chance of surviving if the buboes burst
- 50% Chance of death
- caused septecemic and pneumonic
- Pneumonic Plague
- Severe type of lung infection, cough up blood
- 90% Chance of death
- Septicemic Plague
- 100% Chance of death
- Blood infection
- Bubonic plague
- Extra facts and figures
- About 33%-35% of Europe pop. was wiped out by the plague
- Death could occur within 1 day
- Estimates suggest half of England's pop. died (30%-60%)
- Estimated death toll for England and Ireland: 3.2 billon
- Factors
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