HISTORY

Black Death



Black Death

The Black Death is said to be the most brutal of pandemics that has ever stricken the humans in its history. It hit the European side in the year of 1348 from 1350. There were many theories in related in terms of the aetiology of the pandemic and there was an analysis that was conducted in terms of the analysis of the DNA of the individual who was struck with the disease and it was concluded that it was due to the pathogen called Yersinia pestis bacterium which is said to in turn cause Bubonic plague (www.bbc.co.uk)

Thesis Statement: Black Death was an economic and social disaster but it aided in rendering he future of medicine

This disease had said to start from China and specifically from the central region of Asia before it entered the west. The plague took the route to the Silk Road and then it finally reached Crimea in the year of 1346. It did not stop there considering the plague entailed the rat fleas that were oriental and it was said to be living on the black rats that used to sneak into the merchant ships that travelled round the world. It was the ships that worsened the situation since the ships travelled the European side and the Mediterranean Sea. The plague had spread across the region and it was the cause of thirty to sixty percent of the deaths in the European side. It was the aftermath of the plague that had said to cause troubles in terms of economic, religious and social upheavals which impacted the history of Europe. Since the plague had impacted the population rate and decreased it tremendously hence it was necessary to increase the population and it nearly took 150 years to bring the population back to where ...