The+Black+Plague

= Maps of the Black Plague =

Here it shows where it started the spread of the black plague was beginning in china then it spread all the way to Europe. Then it went through India it also passed on to sea it caused a lot of problems.It spread from Asia through Europe also through India. It started on fleas then it passed onto rats. After that they passed onto humans. Living in Europe in the middle of the 1300's would have been heart breaking and dreadful. Not only were the living conditions very poor but there was an unknown disease that was wiping out a large percentage of euro-peon population. One cannot imagine the fear, It took a huge impact because imagine the people were in pain without a solution to their disease. All it started with a flea then passed it on to a rat. The causes were that the people were dieing and they were innocent they didn't had no cure for it too. It irrevocably changed Europe's social and economic structure and was disastrous blow to Europe's predominant organized religion, the roman catholic church. It caused widespread persecutions of minorities like Jews and lepers, and created a general morbid mood, which influenced people to live for the moment, unsure of their daily survival. Anyone with a skin disease such as acne or psoriasis was thought to be a leper, and leprosy was believed to be an out ward sign of inner defect of the soul. It had a huge affect to the communities because they were smaller amount of people alive. After that happen the medical workers were trying to prevent the disease of the poor victims who had the black death. The mongols conquests brought much more than death and devastation. From the eastern Europe The caravans and em basis that crossed the mongol lands transmitted new foods, inventions, and ideas from one civilized pool to the others.

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