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The Christians believed that the Jews were associated with the devil and wanted the Christians to be eliminated. They believed that the Jews were responsible for all the illness' in the world regardless of how irrational it claims. the Jewish quarter was fired, 40 Jews were murdered in their homes, 900 were burnt alive and many hundreds of Jewish communities were destroyed. Many Jewish members committed  suicide to avoid the persecutions. The Jews were widely known for poisoning wells so most people automatically assumed that the Jews were responsible for the plague. The image below shows the Jews getting punished for what they have supposedly done. even though they didn't cause the start of the black death they were super-stitious and still believed the Jews were the cause.

source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death_Jewish_persecutions

http://www.sixmillioncrucifixions.com/Blaming_the_Jews_for_the_Black_Death_plague.html

image:
http://geostoria.weebly.com/storia-del-popolo-ebraico.html

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In a time period called the age of the faith, the catholic church dominated medical knowledge and treatment. the priest became more important than the doctors. "Bleeding" of the patients was believed to release the poisons from the victims body. Other treatments include lancing of the boils or buboes (an inflammatory swelling of a lymph gland especially in the groin or armpit area) and covering the buboes with a substance to draw off the poison. The picture below shows the buboes. they look like big lumps that are swollen and sore.

sources:
- year 8 textbook
- http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bubo
image:
https://basementlife-nz.com/category/bottomfeed/page/2/

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The towns and communities of the black death were overwhelmed by the number of dead people. Many bodies were taken to churches where there wasn't very much sacred ground so the bodies could be buried. Cities like France, London, England, and Avignon the bodies were thrown into rivers or piled up in pits because of the lack of suitable burial sites. Coffins were not always available to so the dead bodies were carried on wooden boards to carry them to churches, graveyards and burial pits. The picture below shows a large pit like surface with bones layed next to each other. this is what the mass burials looked like in the middle ages during the black death.

source: year 8 textbook
image: http://mentalfloss.com/article/24658/strange-geographies-happy-haunted-island-poveglia

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The black death was one of the most devastating pandemics in human  history resulting in an estimated 75 to 200 million people who died from the black death. The black death was believed to have killed  30-60% of Europe's total population.
The image below is a gif showing the spread of the black death and the areas that were affected.
source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death
image:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death

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One of the main means of prevention was to burn aromatic herbs or wood to counter the foul atmosphere and poisoned air (miasma). Also houses where filled with nice smelling flowers, plants and their floors where sprinkled with vinegar and rosewater. People would also carry sweet smelling concoctions when they left their houses. Plague doctors also wore masks filled with herbs to stop them from breathing in the miasma.

source: year 8 textbook
images:
http://themarketplacejournal.com/picsppw/treatment-of-black-plague-in-the-middle-ages

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Plague had a large scale of social and economic effects on societies. People abandoned their families, fled cities, and shut themselves off from the outside world. The funeral rites became stopped altogether and work started to decrease. Some people believed that god was descending upon everyone so they tried and fought the plague with prayer. Faith in religious terms decreased after the plague because of the deaths of so many people and because of the failure of prayer to stop and prevent the sickness.  It was so difficult (dangerous) to produce goods through trade and the prices of both goods produces locally and those important from far skyrocketed. Because of the amount of illness, death workers became exceedingly scarce, so even peasants and serfs felt the effects of the new rise in wages. The social and economic structure of Europe was drastically changed.

source:
https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/plague/effects/social.php
image:
http://weheartit.com/entry/161000427

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Since 1100 there had been a surge in trade between Europe and the East. It was a result of increased demand for goods from the East and improvements in the sea travel making it easier to exchange and sell goods. Important trading towns grew in northern Europe and Italy. A network of trading routes crisscrossed Europe, the Mediterranean, the Middle East and beyond. The image below shows all the trade routes where the black death travelled through.

source: year 8 textbook
video source: http://www.history.com/topics/black-death
image:
https://au.pinterest.com/pin/527765650052870906/