The Black Death
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- Created on: 26-04-14 13:39
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- The Black Death
- Pneumonic Plague
- Attacks lungs - severe breathing problems then cough up blood
- More rapid deaths
- Spread by germs in the air from person to person
- How was it spread?
- Fleas on rats - bubonic
- Germs in the air from person to person - pneumonic
- Bubonic Plague
- Painful swellings (buboes) in armpits and groin and small blisters all over
- Headaches, unconsciousness and fevers
- Spread by fleas
- What did the people think caused it?
- Miasma - 'bad air' which smelt bad
- Movement of planets
- Gods and devils
- Invisible poisons in the air
- Humours not balanced
- Where?
- In 1348 a ship brought it to England
- Through trading ships from the Mediterranean to Europe
- When?
- In the 14th century (late)
- From approx. 1348 to the end of the 14th century
- Pneumonic Plague
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