How the Black Death Changed the world by Samuel Siegal https://padlet.com/ssiegal4/ul1abot7qee4nrl6 en-us 2023-03-23 01:53:49 UTC 2025-11-04 12:03:23 UTC hello@padlet.com The Black Death happened in Europe and Asia in the mid 1300s when rats traveled on ships and brought fleas and plague with them. Because most people who got the plague died, and many often had blackened tissue due to gangrene, Bubonic plague was called the Black Death. ssiegal4 https://padlet.com/ssiegal4/ul1abot7qee4nrl6/wish/2528072894 2023-03-23 01:54:39 UTC https://padlet.com/ssiegal4/ul1abot7qee4nrl6/wish/2528072894 About 25 million people are estimated to have died in Europe from the plague between 1347 and 1351. ssiegal4 https://padlet.com/ssiegal4/ul1abot7qee4nrl6/wish/2528073121 2023-03-23 01:54:53 UTC https://padlet.com/ssiegal4/ul1abot7qee4nrl6/wish/2528073121 Bubonic plague is transmitted through the bite of an infected flea or exposure to infected material through a break in the skin. Symptoms include swollen, tender lymph glands called buboes. Buboes are not present in pneumonic plague. ssiegal4 https://padlet.com/ssiegal4/ul1abot7qee4nrl6/wish/2528074904 2023-03-23 01:56:25 UTC https://padlet.com/ssiegal4/ul1abot7qee4nrl6/wish/2528074904 In October 1347, a ship came from the Crimea and Asia and docked in Messina, Sicily. Aboard the ship were not only sailors but rats. The rats brought with them the Black Death, the bubonic plague. ssiegal4 https://padlet.com/ssiegal4/ul1abot7qee4nrl6/wish/2528075900 2023-03-23 01:57:15 UTC https://padlet.com/ssiegal4/ul1abot7qee4nrl6/wish/2528075900 After the outbreak, the black death had caused trade suffered for a time, and wars were temporarily abandoned. Many laborer's died, which devastated families through lost means of survival and caused personal suffering; landowners who used laborer's as tenant farmers were also affected. ssiegal4 https://padlet.com/ssiegal4/ul1abot7qee4nrl6/wish/2528076380 2023-03-23 01:57:42 UTC https://padlet.com/ssiegal4/ul1abot7qee4nrl6/wish/2528076380 Not long after the black death struck Messina, it spread to the port of Marseilles in France and the port of Tunis in North Africa. Then it reached Rome and Florence, two cities at the center of an elaborate web of trade routes. By the middle of 1348, the Black Death had struck Paris, Bordeaux, Lyon and London. ssiegal4 https://padlet.com/ssiegal4/ul1abot7qee4nrl6/wish/2528076987 2023-03-23 01:58:12 UTC https://padlet.com/ssiegal4/ul1abot7qee4nrl6/wish/2528076987 In the early 1350s the Venetian authorities isolated ships in port for 30 days to ensure they were not infected. The period was extended to 40 days, and the word 'quarantine' comes from the Italian word for 40. Control of the movement of people and goods. ssiegal4 https://padlet.com/ssiegal4/ul1abot7qee4nrl6/wish/2528081093 2023-03-23 02:02:12 UTC https://padlet.com/ssiegal4/ul1abot7qee4nrl6/wish/2528081093 The plague had large scale social and economic effects, many of which are recorded in the introduction of the Decameron. People abandoned their friends and family, fled cities, and shut themselves off from the world. Funeral rites became perfunctory or stopped altogether, and work ceased being done ssiegal4 https://padlet.com/ssiegal4/ul1abot7qee4nrl6/wish/2528085263 2023-03-23 02:05:44 UTC https://padlet.com/ssiegal4/ul1abot7qee4nrl6/wish/2528085263