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BLACK DEATH
HISTORY In the fall of 1347, a fleet of trading ships left Ukraine sailing for Sicily. Mid-voyage, sailors became sick and started dying. Soon after they docked in Sicily, townspeople became sick and started dying too. Within weeks, the sickness was raging through Italy. By the next year Spain and France had been infected too.
BIBLIOGRAPHY Black Death Europe. Youtube. 23 Jan. 2007. 4 May 2009 . Ellis, Elisabeth G., and Anthony Elser. Prentice Hall World History. Boston, MA: Pearson Education Inc., 2007.
HAPPENED BEFORE The sickness was spread by fleas and rats and was a boubonic plauge. It had broken out earlier in Europe, Asia, and North Afrtca, but had disapeared. One strain was thought to had survived in Mongolia.In early 1300's rats spread the plauge in Chinese cities, killing about 35 million.
EFFECTS, ECONOMY, AND END One in three people died. Nobody knew what to do. Some turned towards witchcraft and others went int extreme pleasures knowing that they were going to die. The economy took a huge hit because when workers and employers died, production and buisness rapidly declined.Survivors wanted more money because they were having to work so hard. Although it soon declined, it would take no less that 100 years before western Europe got back on its feet.
Questions 2. Not many travelers and traders came through Europe at the time for the fear that they would get the plauge. 3. The immediate reaction was to panic. Most people freaked out but some tried to find the source of this and stop it before it was too late. 4. Europe was badly hurt by the Black Death all around and really suffered population loss and didn't regrow back (population and economy) for the next 100 years.
