The Black Death

The Black Death

1. Where?

   • Asia
     • China
     • India
       • Syria, saracens, Turkey, greece, italy, France-UK
         • Trade routes
   • Bristol
     • Melcome, Dorset
       • Southhampton

2. When?

   • SUMMER of 1348
     • June/July
   • Reaches London/Oxford by 1349

3. What?

   • Bubonic
     • Flea, rat, human, BITE
     • Buboes-leg, groin, armpit
     • High Temperature
     • Black spots
     • Spasms
     • 66% death rate
     • Life expectancy-4-5 days
   • Pneumonic
     • Air born
     • More contagious
     • Coughing blood
     • High temperature
     • 99% death rate
     • Life expectancy-2 days
   • Septacaemic
     • Poisoning blood
     • 24 hours till death
     • 99.9% death rate

4. Medieval causes

   • Smoke
   • Religeon
   • Smells
   • Moving of the planets
   • Close to infected people
   • Jews and the water
   • The french

5. Effects

   • Short term
     • Fields unfarmed
     • Prices rose
     • Peasants rebellion
     • Wages rose
   • Long term
     • Peasants revolt
     • Less freedom for villeins