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Pneumonic Plague Bubonic Plague
1,804 wordsIn the early 1330 s an outbreak of deadly bubonic plague occurred in China. Plague mainly affects rodents, but fleas can transmit the disease to people. Once people are infected, they infect others very rapidly. Plague causes fever and a painful swelling of the lymph glands called buboes, which is how it gets its name. The disease also causes spots on the skin that are red at first and then turn black. Since China was one of the busiest of the world's trading nations, it was only a matter of tim...
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Economic And Social Black Death
1,343 wordsThe Black Death is the name later given to the epidemic of plague that ravaged Europe between 1347 and 1351. The disaster affected all aspects of life. Depopulation and shortage of labor hastened changes already inherent in the rural economy; the substitution of wages for labor services was accelerated, and social stratification became less rigid. Psychological morbidity affected the arts; in religion, the lack of educated personnel among the clergy gravely reduced the intellectual vigor of the ...
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Standards Of Living Due To The Fact
2,010 wordsThe Black Plague (also known as the Black Death or Bubonic Plague) of the 1300 s is considered by many historians to be one of the most influential events and turning point in the transition from medieval to modern-day Europe. Some analysts even compare its devastation to that of World War I, since " 25 % to 50 % of Europe's population were killed during the onslaught" of the plague (Gottfried, 77). While "no one rich, middling, or poor, was safe from the plague" (Platt, 97), those affected the ...
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Bubonic Plague Black Death
1,005 wordsvirulence that the course of human history changed forever (Wark). In its second pandemic, the bubonic plague, mostly referred to as the Black Death, wiped out almost a third of Europe s population. The Black Death was a horrible tragedy that was responsible for many deaths and caused many changes in the 14 th through 17 th century. The bubonic plague could not have spread on it s own: it needed help. For instance, natural disasters, such as earthquakes and floods, drove rats to look for shelter...
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Bubonic Plague Middle Ages
764 wordsBlack Plague In a time when social health was poor, doctors were scarce and ineffective, the largest, most deadly disease outbreak in the history of the world took its toll on mankind. It is estimated that fifty million people lost their lives to the Bubonic Plague that ravaged through Europe for five years. The streets of middle age villages were littered with corpses that no one would touch for fear of contracting the disease. The primitive medical practices of the time werent much help either...
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