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What was the Black Death and when did it end? | The Week UK
The Black Death: Key Facts About The Bubonic Plague That Ravaged Europe - HistoryExtra
Plague (Black Death) bacterial infection information and facts

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How the Black Death Spread Along the Silk Road | HISTORY

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The Silk Road was a vital trading route connecting East and West—but it also became a conduit for one of history’s deadliest pandemics.

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The consequences of this violent catastrophe were many. A cessation of wars and a sudden slump in trade immediately followed but were only of short duration. A more lasting and serious consequence was the drastic reduction of the amount of land under cultivation, due to the deaths of so many labourers. This proved to be the ruin of many landowners. The shortage of labour compelled them to substitute wages or money rents in place of labour services in an effort to keep their tenants. There was also a general rise in wages for artisans and peasants. These changes brought a new fluidity to the hitherto rigid stratification of society.

The psychological effects of the Black Death were reflected north of the Alps (not in Italy) by a preoccupation with death and the afterlife evinced in poetry, sculpture, and painting; the Roman Catholic Church lost some of its monopoly over the salvation of souls as people turned to mysticism and sometimes to excesses.

Anti-Semitism greatly intensified throughout Europe as Jews were blamed for the spread of the Black Death. A wave of violent pogroms ensued, and entire Jewish communities were killed by mobs or burned at the stake en masse.

The economy of Siena received a decisive check. The city's population was so diminished that the project of enlarging the cathedral was abandoned, and the death of many great painters, such as Ambrogio and Pietro Lorenzetti, brought the development of the first Sienese school to a premature end.

In England the immediate effects of the epidemic of 1349 seem to have been of short duration, and the economic decline which reached its nadir in the mid-15th century should probably be attributed rather to the pandemic recurrence of the plague.

The study of contemporary archives suggests a mortality varying in the different regions between one-eighth and two-thirds of the population, and the French chronicler Jean Froissart's statement that about one-third of Europe's population died in the epidemic may be fairly accurate. The population in England in 1400 was perhaps half what it had been 100 years earlier; in that country alone, the Black Death certainly caused the depopulation or total disappearance of about 1,000 villages. A rough estimate is that 25 million people in Europe died from plague during the Black Death. The population of western Europe did not again reach its pre-1348 level until the beginning of the 16th century.
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Black Death - Plague, Mortality, Europe: It is estimated that 25 million people, or about a third of the population, died in Europe from plague during the pandemic. This massive loss of life led to many changes, including much less land under cultivation, greater social mobility, and a rise in violent anti-Semitism because Jews were blamed for the plague.

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Middle Ages for Kids: Black Death Plague

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Kids learn about the Black Death during the Middle Ages and Medieval times. Plague that killed many in Europe and throughout the world.

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- People think that the plague ended with lots of quarantining.
- People believed the disease came from God, so instead of making a cure, they prayed.
- In panic people burned down houses and villages to try and stop the spread.
- There is no confirmed why that the epidemic ended.
- The disease came back to Europe at different times but it was never as bad as The Black Death pandemic.

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- People believe that about 800 people in France died every day.
- About 25 million people died in total.
- There were so many dead people they couldn't bury them all so they threw bodies into big pits.
- It killed almost a third of the population.

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- The disease causes buboes or lymph nodes on your body.
- Simpler symptoms include feeling sick or weak, having a fever or chills.
- Extreme symptoms include bleeding, blackened skin, vomiting, coughing with blood, trouble breathing, and more.
- It is partly called the Black Death because it made your skin have black/blue blotches.

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- The disease comes from a bacteria called Yersinia pestis.
- Fleas carried the bacteria and rats carried the fleas, causing the disease to spread.
- Its thought to be started in Asia and made its way to Europe from the silk road.
- The merchants carrying the disease stopped at many villages in their travels along the silk road, causing the spread.

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- The Black Death has many names, like the Black Plague, the plague, the bubonic plague, etc.
- The disease still exists today, but is less common and is treated easily.
- It was spread all the way from Europe to Africa.