PRESENTATION OUTLINE
you will need this guide if you want to survive the Black Death
The plague simply originated from Asia, china, lake Issyk-ku, etc. the plague came from fleas that lived on infected rats.
Urban was mostly effected because everything was so close and people were dumping waste in streets (unsanitary and dirty)
The Black Death was an outbreak of a plague in Europe in the mid-14th century
Symptoms: Headache, nausea, vomiting, aching joints, and a generally ill feeling.
It is very slim that you'd survive unless you moved away uninfected. 25 million deaths were
caused.
They thought God was angry with them (they didn't understand biology of diseases) and believed It was a divine punishment
We know that infected rats settled there. When the rats died, the flees would get hungry and bite
humans.
They cleaned/burning streets, lighting aromatic fires to tackle miasma to prayer, and more.
We can make our homes rodent proof and wear gloves while handling/skinning infected animals to avoid contact.
One is put to bed and washed in vinegar and rose water (bloodletting, spiritual, herbal, animal)
Antibiotics (streptomycin, gentamicin, chloramphenicol,
tetracycline)
How it changed life for people in Europe was the people who had survived suffered communal crisis in faith and instead of becoming more religious, people harbors thoughts
It affected the population by reducing the worlds population by almost 74-100million. It took Europe 150years to get their population back.
The whole village starved because of this disease. Towns and cities had food shortage because harvest would not be brought without the menpower.
How it affected life's was by having the people that survived believe it was a chance for them to change their lives. It also affected their religion and art.