The Black Death

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The Black Death

• C. H.

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Try living this way at 4

• Infected bodies lined the cobblestoned streets.
  Every where you look, thats all you see. High
  pitched moans of barely alive people fills your
  ears. Trying to drown it out, you start singing
  Ring Around the Rosy as loud as you can, not
  worrying about other people because everyone was
  afraid to come out in worries of catching the
  plague. You want to make the noise, the sight of
  sickly bodies, and everything that reminds you of
  the sickness stop, but being a four year old
  orphan on the streets, you cant do any thing
  except try to find your mommy and daddy, when the
  truth is, they are buried in a massive hole with
  plenty of other Black Death victims that the
  plague didnt spare. But, not knowing that, you
  keep on walking into the horrible, grim truth
  called the Black Death.

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Introduction to the Monstrosity (Black Death)

• Did you know that the ever famous nursery rhyme
  Ring Around the Rosy was invented during the
  Black Death?
• Ring Around the rosy, a pocket full of posy,
  ashes, ashes, we all fall down!
• Ring around the rosy Rosary beads give you gods
  help.
• A pocket full of posies Doctors and people used
  posies to stop the smell of death and prevent
  them from infection.
• Ashes, Ashes Churches burned infected corpses
  when they did not have enough energy to bury
  them.
• We all fall down Dead people.
• This common rhyme shows us how horrible the black
  death really was.

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What was this Black Death?

• The Black Death was one of the worst supernatural
  events in history. It affected the Middle East
  and united nations from 1347 to 1352.
• It consisted of three plagues, but only one of
  them, the Bubonic plague, was not deadly enough
  to kill you on the spot. (That was the most
  commonly seen.)
  
  
  
• By the time it was controlled, it had killed 25
  million people in the middle east!

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Causes of the Black Death

• The Oriental Rat Flea
• Two very warring peoples

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The Ever So Deadly Oriental Rat Flea!

• This flea is littler than your fingernail, yet
  can cause enough trouble to start a worldwide
  disease massacre. This flea drinks rats blood,
  which has a very deadly bacteria called Yersinia
  Pestis in it. This bacteria multiplies in the
  fleas gut and clogs it up. When the flea cannot
  breathe or do anything else, it regurgitates the
  blood into and open wound, (in this case the
  humans,) and the bacteria spreads as the bacteria
  is sucked into the cells, therefore transmitting
  the disease.

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They Fought Over the Black Death! (The story of
the Tartars, Genoese, and the black death)

• The Black Death originally started in the Deserts
  of Asia, and it happened to the Christian Tartars
  people because of a deadly flea, the Oriental Rat
  Flea, bit them and the plague spread around.
  Thousands of their people died.
• Some unknown reason, maybe superstition, caused
  the Tartars to blame the Jewish Genoese, and they
  decided to share the pain with them.In 1346, the
  same year the plague had tortured the Tartars,
  they sent a army to take a hold of the
  Genoese-fortified town in Egypt, Caffa, and to
  share the plague even more, they threw dead
  infected bodies over the wall of Caffa and, like
  the Tartars planned, the corpses rotted and
  spread the plague right along with the spread of
  it through the army.
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• When the Genoese people fled away from the plague
  in boats in 1348, they took the plague and the
  flea with them, which spread it to the other
  countries in UK and the middle east, including
  England, France and Italy.

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Symptoms of the Plague

• Blisters at Flea bite site
• High fever
• Chills
• Headache
• Delirium
• Extreme Exhaustion

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Desperate Measures of Safety

• Government
• The towns would wall up the houses that were
  infected, healthy people and all, so not to
  spread the disease anymore.
• They would also ring church bells or newly
  founded cannons to ward off the disease.

• Other measures of safety
• People tried to keep The Death away by burning
  pine, beech, laurel, and juniper.
• People also believed witchcraft and the black
  arts would cure it.

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Finally! Its over! Right?

• Wrong! The Black Death still exists, even today.
  We haven't seen another outbreak of it since the
  smallpox outbreak in the 1800s, but it could
  very possibly come back at any time. So the next
  time you have a little headache and dont feel
  good, just think of the 4 year toddler roaming
  the streets or being one of the corpses lying on
  that street. Itll make you feel a whole lot
  better, I promise.

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Sources

• Information
• http//www.insecta-inspecta.com/fleas/bdeath/bdeat
  h.html
• http//www.wrongdiagnosis.com/b/bubonic_plague/sym
  ptoms.htm
• http//history.boisestate.edu/westciv/plague/

• Pictures
• 1bepast.org
• 2www.hrionline.ac.uk
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