Transcript Slide 1

THE BLACK DEATH
THE BLACK PLAGUE
• Approximately 1/3 of the population of Europe died of the
Bubonic Plague. If 1/3 of the US population were wiped out it
would completely eliminate New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey,
Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, and
Missouri.
• Origins: Asia- Mongols
•Catapulted bodies over city walls in the Crimean War
•Traveled the Silk Road
•Arrived in Europe in 1347, carried by Genoese merchant ships
• Became known as the “Black Death” because of the black or
purple spots it caused and because of the gangrene it produced
• probably killed 25 million Europeans; it took 150 years for the
European population to recover; as many as 100 million or more
people throughout the world may have died
THE BLACK PLAGUE
• ironically the Plague may have created the European middle
class and led to a higher standard of life. How did this happen?
• Symptoms- chills, high fever, muscle pain, headache, seizures,
bubo (painful swelling in lymph glands);
•people of the time were at a loss to explain what was taking place;
many believed God was punishing them
• Effects- population fell (obviously), trade declined and prices
rose, peasant revolts broke out, Anti-Semitism rose, the Church
lost some power
•Ring a-round the rosy
Pocket full of posies
Ashes, ashes!
We all fall down!
PLAGUE BACTERIA
MOST COMMON PLAGUE
CARRIER
PLAGUE VICTIMS
GANGREEN CAUSED BY
THE PLAGUE
SWOLLEN LYMPH NODES
BLEEDING UNDER THE
SKIN