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People abandoned their friends and family, fled cities, and shut themselves off from the world to prevent getting the plague. Funeral rites became perfunctory or stopped altogether, and work ceased being done. The fashions of the nobility became more extravagant in order to emphasize the social standing of the person wearing the clothing. The peasants became slightly more empowered, and revolted when the aristocracy attempted to resist the changes brought about by the plague. Serfs improved their standard of living too. Modern day archaeologists have found evidence that prior to the Black Death, most of the peasants relied on clay pots to cook their meals but in years following the plague pandemic, households used more expensive metal cookware.

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Title: Middle Ages The Black Death Plague
Author: Unknown
Last updated: 8/2016

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Title: 10 crazy cures for the Black Death
Author: Mohammed Shariff
Last updated: January 21th, 2013

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Tittle: The Spread of the Black Death
Author: Dorling Kindersley
Last updated: 2016

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Tittle: The Black Death What You Need to Know
Author: Dr. L. Kip Wheeler
Last updated: August 15th, 2016

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Tittle: The Black Death: The Greatest Catastrophe Ever
Author: Ole j. Benedictow
Last Updated: March 3rd 2005

https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/plague/effects/social.php
Tittle:  Social and Economic Effects of the Plague
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Last Updated: March 12, 2010

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Places that were impacted by the Black Death.

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It is estimated that somewhere between 75 million and 200 million people died of the plague which is equivalent to have killed 30–60% of Europe's total population. Remember, in the early fourteenth century, the world population was only about 500 million as a whole before the plague struck. The animal reservoir for plague includes mice, camels, chipmunks, prairie dogs, rabbits, and squirrels, but the most dangerous for humans are rats, especially the urban sort.

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Costantinople was situated in Turkey before being replaced by Ankara as capital city. The Black Death visited Constantinople eleven times between 1348 and 1466. We know of these visits from the writings of eye-witnesses who describe their experiences in correspondence written at that time, in stories. Italian ships from Kaffa arrived in Constantinople in May 1348 with the Black Death on board. When Mongolian soldiers moved west, war was not the only thing they took with them. In Early July, the black death struck taking many lives with it. soon after it spread from costantinople to European Mediterranean commercial hubs also started in the autumn of 1348.

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People across Europe rounded up Jews, boarded them up in their homes, and then set them alight. Unfortunately this was because a group of Jews were captured and tortured into admitting that they were behind the disease. Thousands were killed when they were rounded up and summarily executed to put a stop to the disease. The severity of these attacks prompted Pope Clement VI to publish two papal letters condemning those who killed the Jews.

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Doctors in the Middle Ages had no experience when dealing with the Black Death. Several strange methods were drawn upon including aromatherapy which consisted of the body using different smells such as flowers or herbs. Additionally another method was lancing the buboes meaning to cut open to allow the disease to leave the body. A mixture was to be applied to the places where the body has been cut open.
When people realised none of these procedures actually worked, most people turned to religion as many believed God was punishing them. Devout Catholics begun whipping themselves believing that if God is punishing you, you must punish yourself.

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The first evidence of when the Black Death began was in the 14th century in Central Asia. The Black Death arrived in Europe by sea in October 1347 when 12 Genoese trading ships docked at the Sicilian port of Messina after a long journey through the Black Sea. Most of the sailors aboard the ships were dead, and those who were still alive were gravely ill. “In men and women alike,” the Italian poet Giovanni Boccaccio wrote, “at the beginning of the malady, certain swellings, either on the groin or under the armpits…waxed to the bigness of a common apple, others to the size of an egg, some more and some less, and these the vulgar named plague-boils.” By the middle of 1348, the Black Death had struck Paris, Bordeaux, Lyon and London.