What is the Black Plague?What are the two kinds of Plague?What affect did have on the life of the Middle Ages?

Question

I need to know all this stuff and I can't find it anywhere! Can someone please help?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

The cause of around 75 million deaths, the Black Plague was a disease which was spread by the fleas on rats and other rodents. It started in Central Asia and spread to Europe by the 1340s. In Europe, an estimated 20/25 million deaths were caused by the Black Plague. In 1603, the Black Plague caused 38,000 Londoners to die. It was also called the Bubonic Plague.

If you contracted the disease, you would get bumps all over you. You would get a high fever and you would lay in bed sick. Even though a lot of cures passed through, there were still so many death as to cause the population to drop from an estimated "450 million to between 350 and 375 million in 1400."

Here's the Wikipedia article where I found this information. Hope this helped! <3

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death

Answer 3

That's not trivia, that's homework help!

I smell a rat...a plague-carrying flea-carrying rat!

Answer 4

Black Plague - The Black Death came in three forms, the bubonic, pneumonic, and septicemic. Each different form of plague killed people in a vicious way. All forms were caused by a bacterium called Yersinia pestis

Bubonic Plague - The bubonic plague was the most commonly seen form of the Black Death. The mortality rate was 30-75%. The symptoms were enlarged and inflamed lymph nodes (around arm pits, neck and groin). The term 'bubonic' refers to the characteristic bubo or enlarged lymphatic gland. Victims were subject to headaches, nausea, aching joints, fever of 101-105 degrees, vomiting, and a general feeling of illness. Symptoms took from 1-7 days to appear.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubonic_pla...

Pneumonic Plague - The pneumonic plague was the second most commonly seen form of the Black Death. The pneumonic and the septicemic plague were probably seen less then the bubonic plague because the victims often died before they could reach other places (this was caused by the inefficiency of transportation). The mortality rate for the pneumonic plague was 90-95% (if treated today the mortality rate would be 5-10%). The pneumonic plague infected the lungs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumonic_p...

Septicemic Plague -  The septicemic plague was the most rare form of all. The mortality was close to 100% (even today there is no treatment). Symptoms were a high fever and skin turning deep shades of purple due to DIC (disseminated intravascular coagulation  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septicemic_...

EDIT -  It wasn't spread by rodents, but the flea's carried by rodents.

Answer 5

The Black Plague is also known as the Bubonic plague. It wiped out nearly 80% of Europe and was transmitted by rodent infestation within villages.