Black Death

The Black Death, also known as the Bubonic Plague, was a horrible disease that was spread mainly in the middle areas of Europe. It serves as a divider in the central and the late Middle Ages. There were many changes during these two ages, such as the importance of cities because of the plague and the economic crisis some of the countries had that the plague had hit. The later Middle Ages are usually distinguished as a period of disaster and trouble because of the Black Death. (HWC, The Black Death, n.pag)

The Black Death came out in the Gobi Desert in the late 1320s. No one really knows the purpose of the plague appearing. The plague bacillus was alive and active long before that, but indeed Europe itself had suffered an epidemic in the 6th century. But the disease had lain relatively dormant in the succeeding centuries. We know that the climate of Earth began to cool in the 14th century, and perhaps this so-called little Ice Age had something to do with it. Whatever the reason, it is known that the outbreak began there and spread outward. While it did go west, it spread in every direction, and the Asian nations suffered as cruelly as in any of the other countries that had received the plague. In China, for examp

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An eyewitness tells what happens when he encounters the disease. The Free Press, 1983

HWC, The Black Death. This was the first time anything like that had happened, but it was also the last time, since the plague, it happened. Although Pope Clement VI issued two bills in the summer of 1348 forbidding the plunder and slaughter of the Jews, Jews were still killed. It is a disease that the human race forgot about so quickly, and overlooked the fact that it wiped out a large number of the world’s population. The Black Death hit Russia, in the late 1349, but that was when it really started diminishing. There have been plague encounters in the American and Canadian west, from Texas and Oklahoma in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, it is most often transmitted from species such as squirrels.

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