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On one website it said that 75 to 200 million deaths. On another it said that the population of Europe went from 450 million to between 350 and 375 in the 14th century. Some websites are saying that the Black Death eliminated 2/3 of europes population

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The first appearance of the plague was in Messina, it arrived on trading ships that passed through the Mediterranean Sea. It was a common trade route for ships bringing silk and porcelain, from as far away as China.Once people found out that the sickness came from the ships, they sent them away.Then people in the city ran away with the disease and spread it around the country.The ships also spread the disease to other places around the Mediterranean.That was the beginning of

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In that era the population was mostly uneducated and christian, when bad things happened that they didn't understand they would blame the jews.They thought these things were a punishment from God.The christians hated the jews back then because they thought they were of the devil.The christians all across Europe were killing the jews and setting them on fire wherever they were.They killed off many jewish communities.

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They couldn't bury people individually because people were dying too fast. They were running low of holy ground,that has been blessed, to bury people traditionally. Every morning bodies were piling up outside churches and houses.The only way to bury them was altogether by their hundreds and cover them over.There was often no time for last rights or prayers.

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Family perspectives-The plague killed entire families at a time and destroyed villages.Many families who had children that had died of the plague had to bury them.People were confused as to where people were getting the disease from as it was different every time.Sometimes in a family only the child would survive.A whole community might die, or there might just be  a couple of victims.

Food Supply- The plague affected their food supply because the harvests weren't done and the fields weren't planted because the people who had to do that had died.There was also a lack of animals because the people who were meant to take care of the and feed them had died

Mass burials- There were many bodies piling up so fast that they couldn't keep up with burials, and they were running out of room to bury people, so they had to bury lots of people altogether in big holes.

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In the middle ages people were illiterate and had no knowledge about diseases and being sanitary.Many people believed that the plague was spread through the air, so they would burn incense like juniper and rosemary to attempt to protect the infected air.People would also fill their handkerchief with aromatic oils to cover their mouths and noses.Their was also cure by sound,church bells would ring to ward off the plague.

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The black death killed one in three people.Some of the 'cures' for the black death were quite absurd and had no logical reason as to why it would actually 'cure' the disease.

Vinegar and water- When a person got the plague they had to be in a bed, well they should be. They would be washed over with a mix of vinegar and rosewater.

Lancing the buboes- The buboes associated with the black death were to be cut open for the disease to leave the body. The places where there were buboes that had been cut open would have a mixture of tree resin,roots of white lilies,and dried human excrement applied to them.

Bleeding- back then they assumed that the disease was carried through the blood, so the veins that lead to the heart would be cut open to allow the disease to leave the body.An ointment should then be applied to the wounds afterwards

Diet- You should not eat food that goes off easily and smells bad like meat,cheese and fish. Stick to eating bread, fruits, and vegetables.

Sanitation- All streets should be clean from both animal and human waste.Then it should be burnt in a cart outside the village.All bodies should be buried and their clothes should be burnt.

Pestilence medicine- roast the shells of fresh lad eggs,and then grind it until it's a powder.Chop up the leaves and petals from marigold flower.Add the egg shells and marigold.Add some treacle and put over a warm fire.The affected person should drink this every morning and night.

Witchcraft-Put a live hen next to the buboe to bring out the pestilence from the body.To aid yourself, drink a glass of your own urine twice a day

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The Black death brought upheavals religiously,socially,and economically.the plague wiped out a large portion of Europe's population.It went from an estimated 450 million to between 350 and 375 million in the 14th century.It took over 250 years to recover Europe's population.

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The citizens avoided each other. The grieved thoughts that lay in the minds of men and women and even mothers and fathers were abandoning their children because they did not want to die from the plague. Many of the houses the people lived in at the time were completely deserted and completely uncultivated.

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It peaked in Europe between 1348 and 1350 and is thought to have been a bubonic plague outbreak caused by Yersinia pestist, a bacterium. It reached at Crimea in1346 and mostly likely spread by fleas on black rats that travelled on merchant ships.