Black+Death

= Black Death =

//**What was the significance of this topic during the Middle Ages?**//

In 1347 a disease called the Black Death spread around Europe. The Black Death, also known as the plague, killed 25% - 45% of Europe's population. During the plague in Europe, the people's culture and religion were deeply shaken. Many turned away form religion. While people died, villages became vacant and that caused a food shortage problem. The Black Death caused revolts from the peasants. Europe changed from a medieval to a modern society. Europe went through a very hard time during the Middle Ages. The plague finally ended in 1351. AS.

Works Cited
 * “Black Death.” Middle Ages. Ed. William Jordan. Vol. 1. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1996. 90-92. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 4 May 2010.

//**Include a picture that relates to this topic. Explain what the picture is showing.**//



This is a picture of two people dieing from the disease Black Death. Works Cited
 * “File: Black Death.jpg.” Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Foundation, 1 Mar. 2010. Web. 5 May 2010. .//

**How did this topic influence life and events of the time period?**

The black death is said to be one of the worst disease through the middle ages. The black death started in 1347 in Europe and spread through rats and flees. the flees got the disease then bit rats then rats bit humans and the plague started to spread Europe knew very little on what was happening. at least 800 people were dying a day 25 percent of Europe population was disappearing day by day by day.

// Works Cited

Scribenes, Charles. The Middle Ages. New York: Gale, 1996. N. pag. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 7 May 2010. //

**Connect this topic to something we studied earlier or to the world today.**

//I think the Black Death connects to our society because we still have diseases that we don't know how to cure. The Black Death is like the uncured diseases because there was no cure for it. Also a lot of people were scared that they would get the disease. Another reason it is alike is that people died. Doctors today and back then would try things that didn't work at all. In my opinion I think the diseases that we struggle with right now that compares to the Black Death wold have to be, Cancer, H1N1, AIDS, and Diabetes. So even though the Black Death killed many more people then the Swine flu, I think it still connects. K.M.S

Works Cited //
 * “Black Death.” The Middle Ages. Ed. William Jordan. Vol. 1. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1996. 90-92. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 3 May 2010.

**Describe, define or explain this topic.**

//The Black death was an extremely deadly disease probably the most deadly disease of all time. The plague originated in a town near Delhi in 1330's. This plague started a war style where people would put dead infected bodies into a catapult and launch them into cities to give them fear. By the 1400's seventy years after the plague started in had claimed more than half of all the people living in Europe. The "Black death" wasn't actually contagious it was spread by fleas biting rats then rats biting people, the people didn't know how to stop the disease. In 1348 and 1349 the people in Europe started blaming Jewish people for the cause of the plague and why it spread. The "Black death" ended in 1352 and came back in little doses but left England in 1666 and later attacked France in the 1720's. JA

Works Cited //
 * “Plague Decimates European Population 1347-1352.” Discovery World History. Online ed. Detroit: Gale, 2003. N. pag. Student Resource Center Junior. Web. 3 May 2010.

**What was the impact of this topic on today's society?**

Today Black Death changed what we do today because now we don't have to worry about it much.Black Death is a plague that was originally called Yersinia Pestis. The Two kinds of this is plague one of them is called Bubonic plague. The other is pneumonic plague. What happened with the plague is it spread from Sicily all the way to Scandinavia. Marines that went there said that all of the land were basically deserted.Then what happened with the culture is that it also had economic effects as well. what happened was all of their clerics died. Then finally the Black Death was finally ended witch it basically stop infecting other citizens. The effect that Black Death had on us today is that it would kill a lot of our worlds population. Then we would of had to taken up more work to built more houses. Also our nation's would tire out then and always will be.

CAZ

Works Cited
 * “Black Death.” The Middle Ages. Ed. William Jordan. Vol. 1. New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1996. 90-92. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. May 7, 2010.

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