THE PLAGUE The Bubonic Plague

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Roman Empire 1000 B.C. 476 A.D. Medieval
Period 476 A.D. 1350 A.D. Renaissance 1350
A.D. 1600 A.D.
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THE PLAGUEThe Bubonic Plague

• 1348 1350

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The Start

• Originated in China
• Reached Europe on a boat
• Started in a port on the Black Sea
• Spread from place to place via the fleas on rats

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The Cause

• Rat has infected blood
• Flea eat on rat becomes infected
• Flea bite human disease transfer to human
• Human get headache, swollen glands, nausea, black
  and purple welts.
• 30 - 75 of people who had the disease died

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Population in Europe

• 1000 38 million people
• 1100 48 million people
• 1200 59 million people
• 1300 70 million people
• 1347 75 million people
• 1352 50 million people

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Comparison

• Civil War 1861 1865
• 620,000
• 339.7 people a day
• World War I 1914 1918
• 9,180,283
• 5030.3 people a day
• World War II 1939 1945
• 40,000,000
• 15655.6 people a day
• The Plague 1347 1350
• 25,000,000
• 17123.3 people a day