Black Death
The Black Death, also known as the Bubonic Plague, was a horrible disease that was spread mainly in the middle areas of Europe. It serves as a divider in the central and the late Middle Ages. There were many changes during these two ages, such as the importance of cities because of the plague and the economic crisis some of the countries had that the plague had hit. The later Middle Ages are usually distinguished as a period of disaster and trouble because of the Black Death. (HWC, The Black Death, n.pag)The Black Death came out in the Gobi Desert in the late 1320s. No one really knows the purpose of the plague appearing. The plague bacillus was alive and active long before that, but indeed Europe itself had suffered an epidemic in the 6th century. But the disease had lain relatively dormant in the succeeding centuries. We know that the climate of Earth began to cool in the 14th century, and perhaps this so-called little Ice Age had something to do with it. Whatever the reason, it is known that the outbreak began there and spread outward. While it did go west, it spread in every direction, and the Asian nations suffered as cruelly as in any of the other countries that had received the plague. In China, for examp
Black Death Spreads.(1994). Online. Internet. 17 May 2000. Gottfried, Robert S. The Black Death: Natural and Human Disaster in Medieval Europe. Available: http://www2.itexas.net/~jburks/plague.htm Bubonic Plague. Online. Internet. 17 May 2000 The Black Death: Bubonic Plague. (1994). Online. Internet. 17 May 2000 HWC, The Black Death. (1995). Online. Internet. 30 May 2000 The Black Death came out in the Gobi Desert in the late 1320s. No one really knows the purpose of the plague appearing. The plague bacillus was alive and active long before that, but indeed Europe itself had suffered an epidemic in the 6th century. But the disease had lain relatively dormant in the succeeding centuries. We know that the climate of Earth began to cool in the 14th century, and perhaps this so-called little Ice Age had something to do with it. Whatever the reason, it is known that the outbreak began there and spread outward. While it did go west, it spread in every direction, and the Asian nations suffered as cruelly as in any of the other countries that had received the plague. In China, for example, the population dropped from around 125 million to 90 million over the course of the 14th century. (The Black Death, pg. 70) One of the worst effects of the plague was that it came not once, but over and over again. It was never as bad as the first occurrence. In some cases the plague was as virulent but it was more limited in geographic scope. A couple of times, it covered Europe again, but not with such devastation. It was this recurrence that so reduced the population of Europe, as countries never really had the chance to recover properly before another outbreak would occur. All through the second half of the fourteenth century, every generation was visited by the plague. It struck again and again in the 15th century, but less frequently. Those were the worst centuries, but there were local epidemics for another two hundred years. Parts of Europe did not recover their pre-plague population until the 17th century. (HWC, The Black Death, n.pag) The plague had a deep impact on society between 1331-1353. In China, for example, the Black Death killed approximately two thirds of the population during this course. This amount of deaths in China was very crucial, due to the fact that China was a weak nation at the time. The European world was severely hit by the plague. The Black Death killed over one third of the European population in the span of six years, from 1347 to 1353. The amount of deaths that the Black Death had compared to today is like the effects that a nuclear war would have on the world population. It took the Black Death over twenty years to kill two thirds of China, if it would have continued at the same rate it was going for twenty years in Europe, the European society would have been in deep danger on its population. (Bubonic Plague, n.pag)
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