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How did trade impact population shifts? 

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How did trade impact population shifts? 

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The black death started in china and spread along trade routes. It mostly killed people who had weak immune systems because they couldn’t fight off the disease. Towns and cities developed and grew because merchants could set up a place and sell their goods. They grew becuase serfs would come back from the crusades alive and were no longer tied to their land and mostly free they still had to buy there full freedom.

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The conditions before the black death were very poor because they didn’t have a sewer system houses were poorly built and put very close together and the towns were very overcrowded with lots of people.

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What specifically caused the black death? 

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What specifically caused the black death? 

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Fleas carried disease and they lived on rats so they gave the disease to the rats and when the rats died the fleas hopped on to humans and the disease was spread. The hygiene in cities and towns was very poor. They had no sewer system and all of their waste was dumped into the streets. As well as animals guts and blood after they have been slaughtered for food. There were a lot of diseases because of the living conditions.

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The symptoms of the black death are fever,headache, chills, weakness, swollen and tender lymph glands. as well as black swelling on the armpits and groin area.

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Some cures include cooked onions, ten-year-old treacle, arsenic, crushed emeralds, sitting in sewers, sitting in rooms between two enormous fires fumigating your house with herbs, and rubbing a live chicken on yourself if you had on.

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The treatments were not very effective because people didn't understand how disease worked and spread so some of the things they tried to do as a cure sometimes caused them to become sicker.

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What was the outcome if you got the black death?

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What was the outcome if you got the black death?

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If you got the black death the outcome was mostly likely a painful death. 1 out of every 3 people died of the plague and almost wiped out the entire population.

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The population dropped drastically because so many people were getting the disease and dying. over 5 years over 20 million people died from the plague.

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Living standards after the black death didn't improve and were mostly the same from before the plague hit.

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Ability to access food- production of food and availability of food 

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Ability to access food- production of food and availability of food 

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A surplus of food resulted in overspending and was followed by a shortage of goods and inflammation.

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Ages, conditions, and rights for workers 

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Ages, conditions, and rights for workers 

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There was a shortage of workers and were able to charge higher prices for goods. The government passed a law to stop wages from rising, which caused poor people to become very angry.

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The church lost many people because they died of the plague but it grew wealthier by charging more money for its services. the failure of the clergy to help the sick caused resentment from the people towards the priests.

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The marriage rate rose-predatory men were marrying rich orphans and widows. Birth rate rose because more people were getting married therefore more babies were born but because the plague kept coming back population rates were still quite low. Violence, drugs, and alcohol increased. Some historians believed that the plague helped to destroy the social system.