Black+Death

=toc 1. Questions =

 =2. Inferences =
 * I wonder how the Black Death finally ended?
 * I wonder how rats got the disease in the first place?
 * I wonder what the people did to try and stop the disease from spreading?

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 * I think that the Black Death finally ended when the people got more knowledge about medical treatment, and they figured out they needed better sanitation, because the rats and fleas were only in their towns because of the dirty environment.
 * I think that rats got the disease from other rats, or different animals, because it had to spread from something else, and humans didn't have it yet, so I think it had to be from another animal.

Black Death [|The Bubonic Plague] Black Death-1348 Black Death: Bubonic Plague Black Death and its impact = = =4. Summary =   

While researching about the Black Death, also known as the Bubonic Plague, I have learned how it spread, how it affected medival life, and the amount of people that died. First of all, I learned how the plague was spread from rats to fleas to humans, and how they spread it across Europe. The fleas bit the rats infected with bacteria, and the bacteria then grew within the flea. When it bit a human, the bacteria then entered the cut and went into the human bloodstream (Loftus; Sherman; Quan; Griffin). The humans then fleed from city to city, taking the plague with them. Next, I learned about the amount of people that actually died. Specifically, 25 million were killed, which was one third of Europe's population at the time (unknown). Lastly, I learned how this terrible disease affected medival life. Clergy abandoned their duties. Art went from being joyful to expressing depression and death. With so many people dead, written language was almost lost. All and all, the Bubonic Plague was a horrible <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">disease that affected Europe in a ton of ways. <span style="color: #e949d3; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;"> =<span style="color: #49e4e9; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">5. References = <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">

<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Loftus, Melissa; Sherman, Alex; Quan, Ashley; Griffin, Mieko. "The Black Death 1347-1350." __The Black Death__. May 15, 2001. Accessed November 4, 2009. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">[]

unknown. "The Black Death: Bubonic Plague." __The Middle Ages.net__. 2008. Wideopendoors.net. Accessed November 4, 2009. []

<span style="color: #6118aa; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">20x magnification of Yersinia pestis, the bacteria that may have been the cause of the Black Death



<span style="color: #278255; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Victims of the plague getting blessed by a priest

<span style="color: #ff003d; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">A plaque from the town of Weymouth