“Plague Trade Crusade”(new table of contents entry)

Europe in the middle ages engages the outside world

Bulbous

Septicemic Form:

almost 100% mortality rate.

Plague

• Contact with Asia improved life for Europeans but it also had a disastrous effect. In 1348, ships returning to Europe from the eastern Mediterranean brought back the Bubonic plague known as the Black Death. As many as one to two cases of the plague are discovered in Arizona every year.

• The first victims in Europe were Italian sailors who developed swellings on their bodies. They turned black and blue all over, then died within a few hours. From Italy, the Black Death spread across all of Western Europe. In all, the plague killed more than one third the population of Europe, an estimated 25 million people.

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• The Bubonic plague struck Western Europe several times during the Late Middle Ages. The worst outbreak occurred during the mid-1300’s, the direct result of trade with the Middle East. The plague had already swept through much of Asia.

• The plague helped to weaken serfdom. In the chaos of the times, serfs fled without fear that anyone would capture them. Workers became so scarce that the serfs who remained began to demand higher wages.

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The Mortality

Rate35% - 70%

25,000,000 dead !!!

What were thepolitical,

economic,and social affects

of the Black Death?

-Think about it-

-Think about it-- Trade- Production of Goods- Peasants- Kings- Church- Social Interaction (Why did Europe become a place of socially awkward people)

- Foreign Policy (Diplomacy)

Bubonic Plague Affect Poster

• Use this site to research the above topics: http://www.the-orb.net/textbooks/westciv/blackdeath.html

You are going to create a poster that shows how the Black Plague spread and its affect on Europe. You will focus on the ways that it affected Europe politically, economically, and socially. You will also give me your opinion and justification of your opinion on which one had the biggest impact!

Guidelines1st Section = What was the Plague and how did it

spread?2nd Section = Affect Economically3rd Section = Affect Politically4th Section = Affect Socially5th Section = On the back of the paper! Your argument on which one of the affects had the biggest impact on Europe. Be sure to include claim, reasoning and evidence.

The innocent flea

The Disease Cycle

Flea drinks rat blood that carries the

bacteria.

Flea’s gut cloggedwith bacteria.

Bacteriamultiply inflea’s gut.

Flea bites human and regurgitates blood into human wound.

Human is infected!

Attempts to Stop the Plague

A Plague Doctor