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    The Black Plague resulted the death of an estimated 25 to 60 percent of Europeans. The Black Death spread through Western Europe between 1348 and 1349. It was called the plague because it killed more people than anything before. The Black Death led to many changes one of them being that farmland was not used which reduced the output of food. Another change was that the demand for labor rose. The Black Plague spread through Europe from 1347 to 1351. It was called a plague because it killed…

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    There has been many plagues throughout history but not one earning the name the black death in the thirteenth century. The bubonic plague was a deadly disease that decimated Europe’s population and infrastructure during the mid fourteenth to early fifteenth century, but while it had a positive effect on the economy at the same time religion was at a decline. The bubonic plague is an ancient disease that is derived from a bacteria called yersinia pestis that infects rodents and then transmitted…

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    ceased to exist. People are dying all around you, and an unsafe feeling thrives throughout your nerves. The cringing feeling to even make a step outside your residence is killing you. According to the information given, The Black Death AKA The Bubonic Plague was a pandemic which stretched all across Europe killing approximately 25-50% of the population of Europe. The Black Death was a cleansing of the population of Europe. It made humans scared of each other The Black Death ties with the…

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    Many believe the Bubonic plague first began at sea around October 1837 in Europe. They believe it came to land when ships coming through the black sea ported at the Sicilian port of Messina and the sailors that survived thereof successfully passed it on to the unsuspecting victims of Europe. However, the first sightings of the bubonic plague sprouted up around the 6th century. The emperor at the time (Justinian 1) named it the Justinian plague beginning in 541 AD, it then lived up to its name…

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    In Herlihy first essay the “ Bubonic Plague…”he questions if the Black Death was even a plague. He goes back and does his research and notes the medieval chroniclers failed to mention the mass deaths of rats and other rodents, a necessary forerunner to the plague - epizootics, also didn't mention certain characteristic that aren't typically seen in a plague. His theory about the plague was that the “plague was just combinations of several diseases; “sometimes [they] worked together to produce…

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    itself. The Bubonic Plague, also known as The Black Death, was the most devastating pandemic to humanity in the history of the world. Roughly twenty five to 50 million people died and many more were impacted by the catastrophe the plague left behind. The Black Death swept through Western Europe during the late 1340’s, killing more than two thirds of the population, changing the Church, breaking apart families, sinking the economy, and leaving the western world in ruins. Bubonic plague initially…

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    Most know it as the plague that wiped out about 50% of England’s population, but this epidemic actually originated in China circa the 1330s. China was big in the trading industry, its ships infected with the disease stricken fleas on black rats carried this disease down the Mediterranean, over to Europe in the 1340’s. This is when the Bubonic Plague became a big part of history as the “Black Death”. After 5 long years and 1/3 of Europe’s people deceased, the worst of it was over. Although, the…

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    Bubonic plague is transmitted by the rat flea (Xenopsylla Cheopis), which ingests Yersinia pestis cells by sucking blood from an infected animal. Yersinia pestis is a bacterium that infects rodents, humans and the oriental rat flea. It can be life threatening if untreated. The black death is a contagious disease that can spread very fast. Cells multiply in the flea’s intestine and can be transmitted to a healthy animal in the next bite. As the disease spreads, rat mortality becomes so high that…

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    have just crossed somebody with the bubonic plague, also known as the Black Death. In Barbara Tuchman’s “This Is the End of the World: The Black Death”, she explains what the bubonic plague is and what effects it caused to this world. Tuchman explains that the bubonic plague first spawned in “China and spreaded through Tartary to India and Persia, Mesopotamia, Syria, Egypt, and eventually reaching Europe by 1346” (Tuchman 597). By mid 1350, the bubonic plague…

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    The Black Death was an epidemic of the Bubonic Plague is one of the deadliest events occurred in history started in the 14th century. The disease was caused by the bacteria Yersinia Pettis that spread among the wild black rodents where they inhabit in a huge colony. Rome was one of many major cities that was greatly affected by the Black Death, if not the worse. We’ll be discussing how did the Black Death affect the city of Rome politically, socially and economically. So, it is necessary to…

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