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Black Plague

The Black Plagues real name is the Bubonic Plague. There have been more than 50 million people died. This all happened in the 14th century. The outbreak was in Europe it wiped 60% of all of Europe’s population. The plague was being carried around on normal house rats and ship rats. Since they were near humans they gave the plague to the humans which started to die off very quickly. The rats ended up having fleas on them which then attacked the humans viciously. It would take 3-5 days for them to fall ill then another 3-5 to fall dead. 80% of all the people that got it died. When all the rats died off the fleas had to find a new host so they chose humans.

The Jews came up with the idea to bury people on the surface before all the people would burn they lost family members and friends. When the black plague came around they didn’t burn them they buried, so there ended up being mass burials of thousands of people. Then lots of years later a church was building their church and came upon a mass burial ground of the black plague. They felt terrible about digging up their graves, so they made the church out of the bones of the people. It was a very elaborate design.

Facts
 * People would find whole ship crews dead because of ship rats when the came into port.
 * The Black Plague almost made it to Norway on a wool ship. The whole crew was dead.
 * The Jews were tortured into telling people they helped spread the plague through water sources.
 * Doctors didn’t know how to treat it back then so the used really weird things like urine and dung thinking the smell might drive the plague out.
 * The nuns and priests would go out and help the sick catch the plague themselves and then die and spread it to the rest of the churches.
 * It was because of the Black Death that Catholic Church lost its influence and Protestantism cropped up.
 * Humans weren’t the only things affected farm animals and pets all died to.
 * Back then there was no cure today but things that will make it so it won’t come back again. Back then it was either religious or urine or dung.
 * Although the period known as the Black Death ended in 1351, the plague continued to return to Europe, with epidemics every few years through the end of the fifteenth century.
 * The Jews were often accused of causing the plague to destroy Christians, even though Jews and Muslims were as likely to be infected as Christians.
 * If one person got infected the city or town could affected to.