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The Terrible 14 th Century

The Terrible 14 th Century. A century of famine, war, and plague The plague: extent and symptoms The plague: social effects The cause and the cure Questions remaining. I. A century of famine, war, and plague. The Famine. Never-ending rainfall in northern Europe, 1315-1317.

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The Terrible 14 th Century

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  1. The Terrible 14th Century • A century of famine, war, and plague • The plague: extent and symptoms • The plague: social effects • The cause and the cure • Questions remaining

  2. I. A century of famine, war, and plague

  3. The Famine Never-ending rainfall in northern Europe, 1315-1317

  4. Famine lion

  5. Warfare The Hundred Years’ War: France v. England, 1337-1453

  6. Battle of Crecy 100 Years’ War

  7. Battle of Agincourt

  8. II. The plague: extent and symptoms

  9. The spread of the plague, 1347-1351

  10. Plague struck the Italian seaports

  11. Life Expectancy in England(how long the average person lived) Years and Eras:Life Span: 1276 (the good 13th century) 35.28 years 1301-1325 (the famine era) 29.84 years 1348-1375 (plague era) 17.33 years

  12. plague symptoms

  13. Man revealing buboe on his leg

  14. Monks with plague

  15. Couple with plague

  16. Modern plague victim with buboe

  17. III. Social Effects of the Plague

  18. Burying plague victims in coffins

  19. Doctor with plague mask

  20. Flagellants

  21. Burning Jews, who were blamed for the plague

  22. Plague artwork: the obsession with death

  23. The Dance of Skeletonsby Michael Wolgemut (1493)

  24. IV. The cause and the cure

  25. The plague bacterium, Yersinia Pestis

  26. Xenopsylla Cheopis the flea that spread the plague

  27. Plague-carrying Black rat

  28. Alexandre Yersin discovered the plague bacterium in 1894

  29. Shibasaburo Kitasato also discovered the plague bacterium in 1894

  30. Paul-Louis Simond showed how the plague was transmitted to humans, in 1898

  31. Selman Abraham Waksman discovered Streptomycin in 1943

  32. Plague in the U.S. Southwest

  33. V. Questions remaining • Why did it come and go in just a few years? • Was it really bubonic plague or something else? • Would society react the same way to a similar situation now?

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