PDF-[EBOOK]-The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating

This is the harrowing history of the Black Death epidemic that swept through Europe in the mid14th century killing 25 million people This book retraces the journey of the Black Death as it swept across the continent as well as looking at the lives who were lost or forever changed. The . Black Death. was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history.. The pathogen responsible is the . Yersinia pestis. bacterium. . Thought to have started in China, it travelled along the Silk Road and reached the Crimea by 1346.. Yersinia. . p. estis. What is the Plague?. Disease Causing Agent. Gram negative, rod shaped bacteria. Yersinia. . pestis. Facultative anaerobe. Discovered in 1894 by Alexander . Yersin. Swiss/French Physician and Bacteriologist. The Plague: Primary Source Quotes. Taken from Jackdaw’s The Black Death . Packet.    . “So great was the want of laborers that a third part and more of the land throughout the entire kingdom went uncultivated [unfarmed].”. 1347 - 1351. Canutillo HS El Paso, TX.. The Culprits. The Famine of 1315-1317. By 1300 Europeans were farming almost all the land they could cultivate.. A population crisis developed.. Climate changes in Europe produced three years of crop failures between 1315-17 because of excessive rain.. It was the worst of times…. It was…well, . the worst of times. .. How so, you ask…. Whitechurch:. . - John . le Strange . died . - . 20th . August . 1349. . . . - His . oldest son, Fulk, died . . . 7.41 Trace the emergence of a modern economy, including the growth of banking, technological and agricultural improvements, commerce, towns, and a merchant class . . . . . . The . Causes. The Symptoms. Buboe. Dark Blotches on Skin. Spread of Black Death in Asia. 1346: . Plague Reaches . Caffa. !. The Spread of the Plague (1347-1351). Attempts to Stop the Plague. A Doctor’s Robe. the sister her brother.” – Eyewitness Account.. Key Questions. There are . 3. questions that will be asked during the course of the lesson:. 1. What is the Black Death?. 2. What caused the Black Death?. Key Questions. There are three questions that will be answered while completing this lesson:. What is the Black Death? . What caused the Black Death? . What were the consequences? . The Real Cause. Now that you have investigated various exhibits about the Black Death, the real cause of it was the . type I). Also K/as. Mad rat disease. Black death. Mahamari. Pestilential fever. Buboes. Pest. "Black death" inspired one of the most enduring nursery rhymes in the English language, “Ring a Ring . Pestis. The Black Death (Bubonic Plague). Origins of the Plague. Began in Asia (the Mongols) and traveled through trade routes to the Middle East and eventually Europe. Battle at . K. affa. Hit Sicily first (1347) – Boat of Dead People Arrives. What was the plague?. A terrible disease that spread quickly. What caused the plague?. Rats that were infected with the disease were bitten by fleas who then spread it to humans. Ships coming from Asia spread the plague to most of Europe.. Title: Learning Objectives 1. escribewhat Renaissance people thought caused the Great Plague.2. Explainhow people tried to cure the Great Plague.3. Evaluate the medieval prevention methods of the Grea 9. - The Black Death. Preview. The Black Death Spread . Quickly. - . Plagues, infectious diseases that spread among a large population of people, were not uncommon in the Middle Ages. Once rooted in Europe, the Black Death spread quickly and efficiently through the population.