Black Death

• China


  Where did the Black Death originate?

  
• 1348


  What year did the Black Death arrive in Britain?

  
• Bubonic


  What was the most common form of the plague?

  
• Pneumonic


  What was the deadliest form of the plague?

  
• Melcombe Regis, Dorset


  Where did the Black Death first arrive in England?

  
• A third of the population


  How many people died from the Black Death?
• A germ (pasteurella pestis) which lived in the blood of black rats and the guts of fleas that travelled on their furWhat caused bubonic plague


  What caused the bubonic plague

  
• A germ that travelled in the air - it was caught by breathing in the germs


  What caused pneumonic plague?

  
• Fever, buboes in armpits and groin, a rash of black and red spots

  What were the symptoms of bubonic plague?

  
• Coughed up blood, lungs rotted

  What were the symptoms of pneumonic plague?

  
• 70%


  What percentage of people died from bubonic plague?
• 100%


  What percentage of people died from pneumonic plague?
• People who whipped themselves, hoping that God would forgive their sins and spare their lives.


  Who were flagellants?

  
• Bad air - some people believed the plague was caused by poisonous air

  What was miasma?

  
• The Jews


  Which group of people were sometimes blamed for causing the plague?
• Miasma, God, the planets, person to person


  What were the main beliefs about the cause of the plague?

  
• Lighting fires, praying to God, herbal potions


  What were some common cures for Black Death?

  
• There were fewer people to plough and harvest, so tons of crops rotted in the fields


  How did the Black Death affect farming?

  
• There were fewer of them, so they could demand higher wages. The price of food and other goods fell.


  Why did life for surviving peasants improve?

  
• Villeins could bargain with the lords to end their labour services and leave the lord's control


  Why did peasants become more free?

  
• They took over abandoned land, built bigger houses, ate more meat and less bread. They began to wear clothes of coloured material.


  How did standards of living improve for peasants?

  
• Open sewers, threw rubbish, butchers threw entrails ( rotting meat ) out, lots of animals therefore dung


  Why were streets so dirty
• pestilence


  What did people at the time call the Black Death
• Wrestling in church yards


  During the black death what did the people of Suffolk stop doing
• A widespread outbreak of an infectious disease

  What is an epidemic?
• )Lack of clean drinking water due to pollution of water sources


  Health problem ( water
• In places such as Exeter, aqueducts were built to bring fresh water into the town

  Rakers were implored to clean the streets

  Night carts collected human waste

  Cesspits were lined with brick or stone so they did not leak into water supplies

  Laws were past to stop people from throwing out rubbish on the streets

  Public health improvements
• Towns and ports ( lots of movements of people )


  Where was effected the most by the Black Death
• Remote villages


  Where was effected the least