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Plagues

Plagues. Types of plagues. Bubonic plague The bubonic plague had a couple of Symptoms Fist-size swellings ( bulboes ) when the patient was bitten the bulboes would appear. Swellings were very painful, most patients only survived for a couple days it they had that long.

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Plagues

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  1. Plagues

  2. Types of plagues • Bubonic plague • The bubonic plague had a couple of Symptoms • Fist-size swellings (bulboes) when the patient was bitten the bulboeswould appear. • Swellings were very painful, most patients only survived for a couple days it they had that long. • Some characteristics of the buboes are: they are red at first, but later on they turn a dark purple, or black; this is where the term Black Death orginated from.

  3. Types of Plagues • Septicemic Plague • It came from fleas or body contact of an infected body. • It enters the body through the bloodstream causing the patient only to live for a day. • The patients blood would turn black, thick and a smelly with a greenish scum mixed in it. • This disease would spread pretty fast.

  4. Types of Plagues • The Pneumonic Plague • This plague was one of the worst, it was very contagious, the infected people could spread it so easily by only just breathing or coughing. • People only lived for a few hours. • This plague had a variety of symptons: • Trouble breathing • Spitting up blood • Various boils and dark patches on the skin.

  5. How the plagues Spread • The plagues had spread through fleas and rats, traveling to different places. • The worst place it hit was Europe it had killed over two-thirds of the population. • Also there was any cure because doctors didn’t want to get close to it, because they couldn’t contain it.

  6. Where it Spread • It Spreaded all the Europe • It affected Europe heavily, farmers couldn’t produce crops, because they were dying everyday. • The education level in Europe decline massively • The qualifications to have a high position in Europe declined also because people needed help with things.

  7. How it affected Europe • When the plagues was killing mostly everybody. The people that were still living had tried to make a change in their life • They were either going to try to live life to the fullest before they died or they decided to go to Christianity.

  8. How it affected Europe • Also people where spending and selling all they had, because they figured if they were about to die why keep it if you can’t spend it. • They were engaging in lifely pleasures.

  9. Where it spreaded • The plagues were very mobile they just didn’t stay in one place it traveled all over, like in such places like Spain, it eventually went into France. • It went into Spain and traveled very quickly and harshly • It was mainly where the most people lived or where at this time

  10. Section 6: The Black Death.Damen,2011,01-12-12<http://www.usu.edu/markdamen/132Hist&Civ/Chapters/06Plague.htm • Black Death. The Middle Ages Website, 01-12-11. www.middle-ages.org.uk/black-death.htm • The Black Death in England 1348-1350; Article and images 2000 David; 01-11-12; www.britainexpress.com/History/medieval/black-death.htm • Drotman, Peter D. “ History of the Plague “ World Book Encyclopedia. City Chicago of Publication: World Book, Inc. 2011 • McGill, Sara Ann. Black Plague. Great Neck Publishing, 2009

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