How the Bubonic Plague Changed the World?

Melissa Motes

8th Grade Social Studies

2006

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Origins!!!!!!

• No one knows why the Bubonic plague began

• Historians do know that the disease originated in China

How did the Bubonic plague arrive in Europe?

• Italian merchants carried the disease from the city of Kaffa in present-day Turkey.

• Italians contracted the disease during the siege of Kaffa, through the first form of biological warfare

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Symptoms of the Bubonic Plague

• Fever

• Tingling feeling through the body

• Boils on the body

• Flesh decomposing while still alive

• The disease lasted about 3-5 days

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Despair in Europe

• Anybody could contract the Bubonic Plague• No one knew the causes• People panic and try anything to prevent the

plague• People pray, but prayers go unanswered and

wonder if God is punishing them• People blame the Jews for the plague.• There was no cure for the plague• At least 30 million people in Europe die in a two

year span

Effects of the Bubonic Plague

• Population loss

• End of Feudalism

• Economic effects = workers wages rose

• Church becomes less influential

• People become more secular

Outcome of the Bubonic Plague

• Because of the bubonic plague, people began to think differently about religion, art, life, and philosophy.

• A new way of thought was called humanism, which led to the Renaissance.

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Effects of the Black Death - 50 years after

• The use of quarantine is in usage in Venice. Quarantine is still used today.

• Quarantine is when a person or vessel is isolated for others to prevent the spread of disease

Effects of the Black Death – 100 years after

• The Renaissance is in full force (refer to slide 7)

• The ideas of the Renaissance led to Johann Gutenberg to create the moveable type printing press in 1455.

Works Cited Page

• Knox, Skip. “The Black Death.” History of Western Civilization. 2004. Boise State University. 13 June 2006 <http://history.boisestate.edu/westciv/plague/>.

• Loftus, Melissa. “The Black Death.” Insecta Inspecta. 1999. Insecta Inspecta World. 13 June 2006 <http://www.insecta-inspecta.com/fleas/bdeath/index.html>.

• “The Black Death, 1348.” Eyewitness to History. 2001 . Eyewitness to History. 13 June 2006 < http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/plague.htm>.

• “Michelangelo.” Michelangelo. . 13 June 2006 <http://www.michelangelo.com/buon/bio-index2.html>.