The Black Death
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- Is that a rat?
- Oh No, my pig, he's dead! I just lost so much profit!
- Oh Dear, another one has passed. They are going so rapidly now.
- The Black Death was Devastating global epidemic of bubonic plague that struck Europe and Asia in the mid- 1300s. this Black Death was caused by a bacillus called Yersina pestis. it can be transmitted from rodents to human by the bite of infected Fleas and Rat
- I don't know what to do!
- What do we do? This disease is spreading so fast!
- Many farmers lost their animals during the Black Death. Also many people got the disease from their animals.
- Here is the rest of the money for the labor.
- Priests were dying at a very high rate because they helped care for the sick which eventually made them also sick. Priests would go house to house trying to treat people which made the priests vulnerable.
- How many more bodies do I have to take care of?
- During the black death even the royal family didn't know what to do because they were also being affected. The king's 12-year-old daughter also died from the Black Death.
- Through time, labor became more scarce as people died and as time went on, the wages started to get higher because people needed work done. The society eventually become unstable because peasants were getting more money.
- 50 million people died from the Black Death. This lead to a lot of dead bodies. The peasants who weren't sick had to burn all the bodies in hope that the disease would go away.
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