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The Black Death

The Black Death. EXPLAIN THIS!. Plague Vocabulary (from video). Black Death , also called Bubonic Plague, The Pestilence, or The Plague Pandemic Yersinia Pestis Mongols, Genovese Buboes and acral necrosis Boccaccio Flagellant Amelioration of the peasants. YOUTUBE: The Black Death.

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The Black Death

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  1. The Black Death EXPLAIN THIS!

  2. Plague Vocabulary (from video) • Black Death, also called Bubonic Plague, The Pestilence, or The Plague • Pandemic • Yersinia Pestis • Mongols, Genovese • Buboes and acral necrosis • Boccaccio • Flagellant • Amelioration of the peasants

  3. YOUTUBE: The Black Death History Teachers use Gwen Stefani’s Hollaback Girl to explain this pandemic: Oo-oo Fleas on Rats! A longer documentary: History’s Turning Points: AD 1347 The Black Death

  4. What was the Black Death? Synonyms (for research purposes) • The Plague • The Bubonic Plague • The Pestilence ___________________________ Reading from Source 1: Bishop, Morris. The Horizon Book of the Middle Ages. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1968.

  5. BIG Questions:How have people explained this pandemic? How did it spread so fast and so far, so quickly?

  6. YOUR QUESTIONS: • How did people of the Medieval Times explain it? What were some of the medieval accounts? • How do Scientists explain it? • How does Social Studies (that is, Geographers and Historians) explain it? • How can Mathematicians help us to understand it?

  7. What was the Black Death? • October 1347 • 12 Italian ships returned to Messina from Russian Crimea • Sailors were dying on board • Townspeople ordered ships to leave • Residents fled, spreading Plague • Spread through Sicily to Italy & France Source 1

  8. What was the Black Death? • Bacilli in fleas’ stomachs blocks normal feeding • Tries to feed on black rats • Infects rat with bacilli • Also feeds on humans Source 1, continued

  9. Yersinia pestis (Y. pestis) bacilli Today, some historians and doctors dispute the long-held theories about rats and fleas

  10. What is the Black Death? • Plague bacilli in human bloodstream settle in lymph glands • Result in hemorrhages in blood vessel walls • Dark patches on the skin • Tongue turns black • Swellings (buboes) under arms, in groin • Death usually in 3 days Source 1, continued

  11. Ring Around the Rosie Ring around the rosie A pocketful of posie Hush-a, hush-a We all fall down. ------------------------ “ring around rosie” = skin rash Posie = flowers to fight infection Fall down = die

  12. The Black Death moved in waves …

  13. June 1348: came first to England by port of Weymouth in Dorset People left villages Disease spread over large area of county to cities Rats and fleas “thrived in unsanitised conditions” Source 2 The Black Death in Dorset

  14. What is the Black Death? • Dirty towns with rats got the worst of it • Doctors and priests couldn’t do anything • Animals got sick too • Society changed as people left their friends, family, work, homes Source 1, continued

  15. The Black Death in Florence

  16. Life in the Towns • Crowded with people and houses • Animals roamed streets and lived with families in winter • Streets had no room, poor lighting, and sewage running down them • Animal manure and garbage were common sights – smelly • Flies, rodents, etc. • Source 3

  17. Epidemic: The Black Death • People blamed many things: • Foul air • A look from someone who was sick • God’s anger • Lungs infected – bacteria spread with sneezing • Finally, millions died of the Black Death • Source 3: Peters

  18. Other problems … • Weather turned cold • Floods, early snows, late frosts. earthquakes • Less fertile land, crop failures • Diseased and dying animals • Less food and items for keeping warm • Wars • Famine, sickness • More rodents • Source 3: Peters

  19. Who or what to blame? • Things celestial, terrestrial, or miasmatic, that is, vaporous (*as in the foul vapours from a swamp) • Winds, swamps, lack of sun • Filth, dead bodies • Indulgence – foods, sins • Planetary movements • Cripples, nobles, Jews … • Source 4: Encyc of P & P

  20. (A) Medieval Explanations

  21. (B) Geographic Explanations

  22. (C) Factors of sanitation and hygeine

  23. Sources • Bishop, Morris. The Horizon Book of the Middle Ages. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1968. • “The Black Death in Weymouth & Portland, Dorset.”Weymouth & Portland Borough Council. 2005.12 Nov 2006.www.weymouth.gov.uk/main.asp?svid=769 • Peters, Stephanie True. Epidemic! The Black Death. Tarrytown, NY: Benchmark, 2005. • “Black Death.”Encyclopedia of Plague and Pestilence: From Ancient Times to the Present. George Childs Kohn, Ed. New York: Checkmark, 2001.

  24. Works Cited Bishop, Morris. The Horizon Book of the Middle Ages. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1968. “Black Death.”Encyclopedia of Plague and Pestilence: From Ancient Times to the Present. George Childs Kohn, Ed. New York: Checkmark, 2001. “The Black Death in Weymouth & Portland, Dorset.”Weymouth & Portland Borough Council. 2005.12 Nov 2006.www.weymouth.gov.uk/main.asp?svid=769 Peters, Stephanie True. Epidemic! The Black Death. Tarrytown, NY: Benchmark, 2005.

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