Black death
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- The people we are getting our goods from are getting sick.
- Good thing they don't know Im the one infecting
- I can't wait to go home!
- I wonder what is causing the black death?
- my wife is dead!
- They will never know ha ha ha!
- There is a contagious deathly sickness going around.I don't know what caused it ,and there is no cure. Sorry for this news.
- what are all the black bumps on her body
- The plague came to Europe from the East, most probably via the trade routes known as the silk road overland, and certainly by ship oversea.The Black Death followed the trade routes and soon appeared in mainland Italy , the most urbanized country in Europe
- We must leave now if we don't want to get infected
- ;The Black Death is caused by the Yersin bacillus, a bacteria that is common in the stomach of certain fleas. The fleas live on small rodents, especially black rats. Ordinarily, a balance exists between the bacillus, fleas, and rats, causing no harm to other creatures. The digestive tract of the flea can become blocked, causing it to regurgitate the bacillus into the bloodstream of its host. When that happens, the rats become infected, and plague can break out. The Black Death can take several forms#160;
- we must repent for our sins
- we have put this on our selfs because of our sins
- Blood and pus seeped out of these strange swellings, which were followed by a host of other unpleasant symptomsPeople developed fever, chills, extreme weakness, abdominal pain, shock, and possibly bleeding into the skin and other organs. Skin and other tissues may turn black and die, especially on fingers, toes, and the nose.
- The Black Death caused 25 million people to die a gruesome death.
- People who had the money to leave everything behind did. But little did they know that the black death would fallow them. People where so desperate that they would do anything to give them selfs of an understanding of what he Black death was. And how to get rid of it. Most people turned to faith.
- Some upper-class men joined processions of flagellants that traveled from town to town and engaged in public displays of penance and punishment: They would beat themselves and one another with heavy leather straps studded with sharp pieces of metal while the townspeople looked on.
- The aftermath By the time the disease had run its course in 1352 CE, millions were dead and the social structure of Europe was as unrecognizable as much of the landscape many flourishing cities became virtual ghost towns for a time and crops lay rotting in the fields with no one to harvest them.
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