History, The Black Death

History, The Black Death

1. CAUSES

   • Jews
     • people thought the Jews were the cause of the black death and they burned them thinking that it would help
   • unclean air and bad smells
     • people believed that unlean air had poisoned them so they decided to try and clean the air with fire
     • miasma
   • God
     • a punishment from God for their sins
   • The actual cause were fleas from gerbils carried over from the Black sea
   • spread by human contact

2. Symptoms

   • 1 : buboes
   • 2 : vomiting
   • 4 : spasms
   • 3 : black patches under your skin
   • 5 : Death unless the buboes burst and then you would live and now be immune to the disease

3. Cures

   • Burn the Jews
   • Use fire to clean the air
   • pray and go to church
   • pop the buboes with hot iron needles

4. Facts

   • 1348 - 1350
   • 20 million people died
   • worst catastrophe in Europe ever
   • pope survived
   • started in Venice when a ship came over which had the Gerbils with fleas