1. The Black Death

2. Great pestilence
Medieval people called the fourteenth century catastrophe either the "Great Pestilence," the "Great Death," or the "Great Plague."
Contemporary writers then referred to the event as the "Great Mortality"; the term "Black Death" was introduced for the first time in 1833.

10. FYI: The Plague Most Deadly Period: 1347-1351
Revenge on Wickedness/End of World
1/3-1/2 of European Population Killed
(312 Great 80,000 people each)

11. The Culprit Fleas are bloodsucking parasites
Mouths form 2 functions: spitting into bite; sucking blood

12. transmission

14. Three forms
Bubonic
Mortality Rate: 30-75%

15. Bubonic

16. Bubonic: symptoms
Headaches, painful aching joints, nausea and vomiting, and disorientation…large black boils
Of those who contracted the bubonic plague, 4 out of 5 died within eight days.

17. Three Forms
2. Pneumonic
Mortality Rate: 90-95%

18. pneumonic: symptoms
Fever, cough and blood-tinged mucus. As the disease progressed, mucus became free flowing and bright red.

19. Three Forms 3. Septicemic mortality rate: 100%
Symptoms included fever, cough and blood-tinged sputum. As the disease progressed, sputum became free flowing and bright red.

20. Septicemic: symptoms
High fevers and purple skin patches

23. The path

25. The victims…
“…ate lunch with their friend and dinner with their ancestors in paradise."

26. The victims…
“It was dark before I could get home, and so land at Churchyard stairs, where to my great trouble I met a dead corps of the plague in the narrow ally just bringing down a little pair of stairs."
-S. Pepys

27. Can it be stopped? Government medical workers Fear of plague
How spread?

28. Can it be stopped? Prayer Death to Sinners Closed Villages Starvation
Burning

29. Nostradamus Predicted Hitler Saddam Hussein Lost entire family
Dedicated to cure

30. Economy Skills worth more Peasants & artisans higher wages
Serfs stop planting
Animals roaming

31. The church Suffered Lost authority & prestige Death of followers
No cures/no answers

32. The church

33. The church

34. Dance of death

35. Dance of death

37. It’s the rats Not until 1906 Traded disease Exists today
(mortality: 5-15%)

38. The Black Death