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. Shada Aimadeddine, Iyobo Aimiuwu, and Hannah Barboza. Health Science Project. August, 31, 2012. History. . The history of the Bubonic Plague  is definite and based on true facts. As more than 70 million people died during the Middle Ages of Bubonic Plague or what they called as Black Death. It almost wiped out the almost all of Europe’s population, because the infection was so widespread that it spread to up to 60 percent of the population.. Lenny. Kira. & Tom B. Shannon & Rebecca. Asiatu. . Max & Dominique. Liam & Ellie. Tom H & Georgia. Rebecca & Jonny. Alice. Amarilda. Branden. Joe. Chelsea. Connor. What do you think is happening in this picture? . . Objectives: . Define and discuss the effects of: Mercantilism, the Crusades and the Black Plague. . Create a sequence of events of the following: The Crusades, Mercantilism and The Plaque. . Create a diagram/mental map to explain the cause and effect relationship between The Crusades, Mercantilism and The Plague. . 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.. 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 . Starter Sheets. Readings. Year 8 . Hist. : The Black Death Lesson 1 Cloze passage. Fill in the blanks as we go through the slides.. People still didn’t know about Germs and thought many things caused disease:-. 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. : Doctor! Doctor!. Key words:. Bubo:. a swelling in the armpit or groin.. Epidemic. : a widespread outbreak of one disease. Astrology. : the study of the movement and position of the stars and planets. The plague is believed to have arrived in Europe in 1347 during the month of October. . Those who had gathered to greet the ship were surprised to find most of the crew dead, or ill. . Eww. , get them out of here.. 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. Source 1: The Black Death and Society. "One citizen avoided another, hardly any neighbor troubled about others, relatives never or hardly ever visited each other. Moreover, such terror was struck into the hearts of men and women by this calamity, that brother abandoned brother, and the uncle his nephew, and the sister her brother, and very often the wife her husband. What is even worse and nearly incredible is that fathers and mothers refused to see and tend their children, as if they had not been theirs. There were thousands of instances where parents left their children suffering from the Black Death so they, the parents, could be saved. Thus, a multitude of sick men and women were left without any care. Kaffa. Kaffa. Mongols Use of Biological Weapons. Port Cities. Symptoms of the Black Death. Attack on coastal towns and islands. Guy de . Chauliac. Pneumonic Plague. A Violent end in Barcelona. ______% wiped out by the disease..