The Crusades and the Black Death

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The Crusades and the Black Death
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The Crusades

• The Crusades were an attempt by the European
  Church to reclaim the Holy Land
• Jerusalem had been conquered by Arabs around 640
  AD
• 1095 Pope Urban calls for first Crusade

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Crusades

• Christian knights captured parts of
  Palestine/Syria
• 7 crusades in all from 1095-1300 including
  Childrens Crusade
• Popes wanted to keep armies out of Europe and
  increase power

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Crusades

• By 1291 Muslims recapture all lands in Holy
  Land
• Crusades a failure-BUT- open Europe up to Middle
  East trading, new knowledge and technologies-
  Europeans go explore

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The PlagueBlack Death

• BUBONIC - The bacteria from flea bite invades
  lymph node -causes great swelling. Internal
  bleeding starts
• Blood dries under the skin and turns black ,
  hence the name "Black Death".

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The Culprits
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The Plague

• Enters Europe from Asia spread by rats
• Caused 25 million deaths throughout Europe
• Superstition/ Fear spread in Europe-Jews blamed

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The Plague

• Plague affected authority of Church-which did not
  have answers
• Feudalism changed-workers so scarce could demand
  high wages
• Population wouldnt increase until 1400s

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Lancing a Buboe
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The Disease Cycle
Flea drinks rat blood that carries the
bacteria.
Bacteria multiply in fleas gut.
Human is infected!
Fleas gut cloggedwith bacteria.
Flea bites human and regurgitates blood into
human wound.
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Medieval Art the Plague
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Boccaccio in The Decameron
The victims ate lunch with their friends and
dinner with their ancestors.
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Medieval Art the Plague
Bring out your dead!
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Attempts to Stop the Plague
Leeching
A Doctors Robe
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The Mortality Rate
35 - 70
25,000,000 dead !!!
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