The Black Death
As the Italian writer Boccaccio said the victims, "ate lunch with their friends and dinner with their ancestors in paradise." That was a very realistic description of a plague that ran rampant throughout the world in the early 1300's. The Black Death, or The Bubonic Plague, killed everyone in its path. Throughout this paper I will discuss how the plague came into Europe, what the plague is, the different forms of the plague, and finally what the plague did to the economy and how it changed the World. The Bubonic Plague erupted in the Gobi Desert in the 1320's.Then by transport of ships it got into Italy and began to spread quickly. The plague moved from city to city by trade routes toward the West. It hit by 1347 and then by 1348 it was everywhere, this year was the worst (The Black).The Bubonic plague is the medical term. It is a bacillus most usually carried by rodents. Fleas infest the animal and then move freely over to a human host. The flea then regurtates the blood from the rat into the human (The Black). Then the rat dies, the human dies, and the flea goes on to live a long happy life. Some symptoms include high fevers and aching limbs. Most characteristic is the swelling of the lymph nodes. The swelling i
' This famous children's rhyme spurred from this time of plague and death. Universities and schools were closed down. In 1349 the pope condemned them and ordered authorities to suppress them, but they reappeared in times of plague (The Black). Cities were hit hard by the plague. They showed the burning and the despair of that time. One of the most famous storytellers that lived through this time and wrote about it was Boccaccio. They felt they angered him and he was out to get them. Historians even call the Black Death a time of transformation from the central Middle Ages to the older Middle Ages.
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