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The disastrous outbreak of the plague killed 75 million people. In the medieval ages the records of birth and death were kept at churches. With the large and uncontrollable amount of deaths at the time it was quite hard to keep a good record of the number of deaths. The death rate was not steady or uniform because in some cases almost 100% of the casualties died leaving barley anyone to keep record of that. In the city Sienna, of Italy fifty thousand people die including thirty six thousand elderly. An unfortunate number of only ten thousand people survived the plague. Historians of today use statistics from records in England to estimate some death tolls. An estimated one third of the population surrendered to the Black Death. This adds up to about twenty million people. Across Asia, the Middle East, North Africa and Europe the broad and very hard to estimate guess is about eight million people.

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Jewish people were discriminated often and quite intensely during the medieval times. Christens has secluded Jews from their society forbidding them to work as doctors or hire Christian servants. The medieval society banned Jews from committing to certain trades such as goldsmithing, tailoring and weaving. Jews even had to wear badges to mark their parting from the rest of society. Before the plague Jews already had no power, when the disease came many people looked for someone to blame. They willingly believed that Jews had poisoned the wells of Christian societies and infected the society with the plague. This was a bad excuse as the Jews were dying at the same rate as Christians yet no one was prepared to stand for the rights of Jews. The killing of Jews had started in the south of France before the plague. The in 1348 a group of Jews were put on trial for poisoning wells. From that year Jews were burnt to death in many cities in Germany were the plague had already arrived but in some places as soon as they heard of the plague the burning began. In 1349 before the plague even started showing signs 2000 Jews were burnt to death. Little could be done to prevent the persecution of Jews. 350 Jewish massacres had taken place amongst the losses of the Black Death which ceased many Jewish communities to recover.

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There were many untrue reasons why the plague came to horrify the middle ages. These reasons brought some false cures, as well as some cures that actually worked.

Aromatherapy treatment is still used today. This treatment is using different smells to cure the body. In the middle ages, people thought that carrying sweet flowers or packets of herbs around to essentially purify the air. It was believed that the disease was caused by poisoned air. People also used to burn herbs and wood to fight the disgusting atmosphere. Unfortunately, this didn’t and still doesn’t work. (see source 6)

Religion is a big things in the world today, as was it in the middle ages. When the Black Death arrived many people blamed religion. When the plague reached the Muslims, they were told to live with it because it was gods ill. The Europeans rejoinder was not much worse. Catholics started to whip themselves on the streets while asking and pleading for god’s mercy.

When things got really bad, people decided to just start living life. They decided to go out and have fun, not thinking about death may not bring death upon them. They went to bars, went out with friends and tried to live there life to the fullest as tomorrow they may die. This was ineffective as dead bodies on the street were exposed to the disease even more.

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The bubonic plague had a ghastly effect on humans. The bacteria “Yersinia Pestis” causes it. When a flea bit a human in the medieval times you were almost certain to get one of the three types of plague. The bubonic plague, the septicemic plague or the pneumonic.

The Septicemic Plague

When scientists talk about the black death, they are referring to the septicemic plague. Like the bubonic plague, it is spread by fleas but can also be contracted when handling infected dead animals. The first symptom of the septicemic plague is what it looks like to be an infection. The infected person may experience fevers, chills and aches of the body. It also causes severe abdominal pains and shock. The organisms from the plague make it bleed in your skin and organs. The infected persons skin turns black and dies.

Bubonic Plague

People contract the bubonic plague from the fleas that are infected by Yersinia Pestis. There is a quick change in the infected persons usual body. There is a sudden high fever, headaches and chills. Like the septicemic plague there are common body aches. If it was not for the buboes than it could be confused for a cold. Buboes are extremely painful and tender swollen and infected lymp nodes that develop in the armpits and groins.

Pneumonic Plague

Pneumonic plague is the most serious form, both for its violence on the body and its ease of spread.  It's contracted by breathing in droplets from other infected people or by leaving bubonic or septicemic plague untreated.  There is a sudden onset of pneumonia that is comes with by watery mucus filled with blood and can lead to breathing failure causing the infected person to die.  This is the only form of plague that is spread directly from person to person

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It is thought The Bubonic Plague spread through what thought to be rats. But in actuality, it was spread through fleas. It may never be possible to know exactly where the Plague originated. The disease has been common and present in numerous Asian locations. In Lake Issyk-Kul, Asia where archaeologists found an absurdly high death rate between the years 1338 and 1339. There are also grave stones to commemorate there dead ancestors, leading some to believe the pestilence originated there.

The Silk Road was also a convenience for the spread of the plague. (See green line in Source 1) it spread very easily on the Silk Road leaving traders, farmer and merchants a high risk of bringing the ideas home. Common Sea Trade routes effected the spread of the disease majorly, adding to the problem people didn't know to quarantine the ships properly letting the disease spread even easier.

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The Black Death had an impact on all aspects of society. It didn't just effect lepers, it didn't just effect knights. It effected everyone! Because of this, people started demanding to be treated more equally. Serfs, Freeman and any Black Death survivors were demanding a high wage because of the shortage of workers. Whole towns were abandoned and left to be ruins and ghost towns that will never repopulate.

The black death impacted Religion, which in the middle ages was a huge characteristic of society. Because of the mass increases of deaths, Priests were frequently exposed to the disease. Once in contact with the plague you were almost certain to death because there were no cures. Most priests died so there were few left to perform mass’, clergy’s and most importantly proper funerals. Whole Monasteries were wiped out. This resulted in a mass loss of faith. The community became happier as for tomorrow they may die, people wanted to live their lives to the fullest. People were also jumping really high into the social hierarchy. When relatives died, families that once had no money became suddenly rich, though they would usually die soon after as it was extremely to avoid the black death.