The Black Death. 1347-1400

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The Black Death.1347-1400s 1500s-Present.
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• Epidemic
• An outbreak of disease that attacks many people
  at the same time.

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The Black Death.

• The Black Death was a fatal sickness that began
  its spread across Europe in 1347. One symptom of
  the sickness was swelling of the lymph nodes in
  both the armpits and groin. The Greek word for
  groin is Bubon, while the Greek phrase for
  swelling is Buboes. Through the two of these
  Greek words, came the official name for The Black
  Plague, The Bubonic Plague.

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The Spread Across Europe.

• A mysterious disease attacked people living near
  the Black Sea now Ukraine in early 1347. As the
  disease began to spread, it caused both sickness
  and death. During 1347, there was no medicine
  that existed to defeat this odd, fear-inflicting
  disease.

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The Spread Across Europe Cont.

• The thought was that the Italian traders brought
  the disease to the Black Sea, inhabited by
  Muslims. As the disease worsened and began taking
  multiple lives, all trade was banned from the
  Italians as well as the capture of all Italians
  living in the Black Sea area. As the anger took
  hold of the Muslims, due to so many deaths of
  their own kind, they proceeded to catapult dead
  bodies that were infected with The Black Plague
  into groups of Italians. This measure was taken
  so that the Italians could feel the agony of what
  the Muslims thought they spread across the Black
  Sea.

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Over Seas.

• The retaliation from the Italians was far from
  brutal. They rid themselves of the bodies that
  had been slung into their groups, by dumping the
  infected flesh into the ocean. Then, in October
  1347, a small crew of Italians escaped fleeting
  from the east to Sicily. The small crew, little
  did they know, were carrying the disease with
  them straight into the mainland of Italy.

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Furthering the Spread.

• As the spread of The Black Plague continued, it
  traveled deep into the mainland of Italy such as
  Milan and Florence. The disease made its way to
  these cities through both black rats and the
  fleas that rode upon their backs. Another cause
  of the spread through Europe were Peddlers and
  Travelers, picking up the disease from the coast,
  moving it throughout Italy.

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Worsening the Spread.

• In Italy, the spread of The Black Plague was
  only being made worse. Garbage was not picked up
  routinely while there was no running water
  source, making it easy for rats and lice to
  thrive and keep spreading the plague. Venice,
  hearing of the terrible disease, quarantined
  isolation and restriction on travel their
  boarders. As The Black Plague struck in December
  1347, the quarantine failed.

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Loss of Faith.

• All over Italy people were left to die, cut off
  from friends and family, in cities that were
  infected whether the people had been infected or
  not. Many lives were lost, and grief as well as
  frustration was shown throughout Italy. During
  the winter of 1348 and 1349, a little more than a
  year after the appearance of The Black Death in
  Sicily, had come to an end in Italy. Through the
  rats and lice, the disease made its way to
  France and Southern ports of Europe such as the
  English Channel and over to Western Europe.

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Trickery.

• Although the plague had seemed to be over to the
  people that survived in Italy, it was just
  beginning in other parts of Europe drifting away
  and returning, becoming harsh and then releasing
  its grip upon the human lives. The Black Plague
  continued this pattern, disappearing and
  mysteriously returning for many years after the
  Europe disaster. The disease has never really
  left us, occasionally catching a worthy victim,
  but

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A Cure.

• as the plague finally released its tight grip
  on society, Americans began to find cures for
  the disease as it lay dormant, testing and
  studying the signs and symptoms of the disease to
  find that it could also be classified as
  Smallpox. As the cures were found, medicine was
  created and introduced into the regions, making a
  cure to the deadly Bubonic Plague.

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For Every Action, There Is A Reaction.

• On one hand, as the plague began its spread
  across Europe, people inhabiting the lands
  cowered. The frightened would eat little and cut
  themselves off from both sick and well by
  remaining indoors to insure that they did not
  catch the deadly disease.
• While on the other hand, the un-fearful partied
  and ran wild, drinking and whatnot. The saying
  for these specific people was, We play today,
  for we die tomorrow.

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Side Effects.

• Many mysterious symptoms began happening to the
  people that became infected with the black
  plague. Some of these signs and symptoms were
• Headaches.
• Weakness and fatigue.
• Staggered when the infected persons tried to
  walk.
• Lymph nodes in the sufferers armpits and groin
  would swell to the size of hens eggs.
• Heart would beat wildly, trying to pump blood
  through the swollen tissues in the infected body.

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Side Effects Cont

• The nervous system started to collapse, causing
  dreadful pain and bizarre movements of the arms
  and legs.
• As death neared, the mouth gaped open and the
  skin of the sick began to blacken, caused from
  internal bleeding.
• On the fifth day of being infected, death.

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The Grip of Death.

• The disease disproportionately took the lives of
  physically frail people, rather than
  indiscriminately killing off individuals
  regardless of their health. Rats would spread the
  disease to humans, and humans would infect other
  humans. Swelling would occur, causing blood to
  stop pumping, where then the nervous system would
  begin to break down, causing internal bleeding,
  and then death.

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The After Effects.

• After The Black Death begin to die down, and
  seemingly disappear, the survivors began to
  change the way they live drastically as well as
  changes within the economy. Some of the changes
  were
• Severe labor shortages due to deaths from the
  plague.
• Crop shortage.
• Agricultural prices fell.
• Nobles, whose power and wealth depended on their
  land holdings, lost their place in the social
  change.

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The After Effects Cont

• Serfs were in a much stronger position, due to
  their services being in demand.
• Wages rose.
• Loss of faith, why did God do this?
• New medicines were being created.
• Medical textbooks were published and began to be
  studied.
• New languages arose.
• The Black Death helped pave a way for the new.

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THE END!!!