Trade, The Crusades and the Plague
Objectives: ●Define and discuss the effects of: Mercantilism, the Crusades and the Black Plague. ●Create a sequence of events of the following: The Crusades, Mercantilism and The Plaque. ●Create a diagram/mental map to explain the cause and effect relationship between The Crusades, Mercantilism and The Plague.
Analyze and explain the connection between Mercantilism and the Crusades. What impact did these have on the spread of the Bubonic/Black Plague? Mercantilism AKA Commercialism –the act of trading with other countries/regions to build wealth
Exchange of goods and ideas (AKA cultural diffusion) Silk Cotton Spices Glass Paper Cucumbers Grapes Religious beliefs (Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism) Gems Textiles Alphabet Sugar Rice Perfumes Gunpowder Porcelain
Objective: Analyze and explain the connection between Mercantilism and the Crusades. Essential Question: What impact did these have on the spread of the Bubonic/Black Plague? The Crusades A series of brutal religious wars fought by European, Roman Catholics to win control of Palestine – the birthplace of Christianity – from Muslim rule.
The Culprits
The Disease Cycle Flea drinks rat blood that carries the bacteria. Flea’s gut clogged with bacteria. Bacteria multiply in flea’s gut. Flea bites human and regurgitates blood into human wound. Human is infected!
The Symptoms Bulbous (this is where the term “Bubonic” came from) Septicemic Form: almost 100% mortality rate.
Black Death Song
The Famine of ☠ By 1300 Europeans were farming almost all the land they could cultivate. ☠ A population crisis developed. ☠ Climate changes and excessive rain in Europe produced three years of crop failures between ☠ As many as 15% of the peasants in some English villages died. ☠ One consequence of starvation & poverty was susceptibility to disease.
From the Toggenburg Bible, 1411
Lancing a Buboe
Medieval Art & the Plague Bring out your dead!
Medieval Art & the Plague
An obsession with death.
Death Triumphant !: A Major Artistic Theme
Attempts to Stop the Plague A Doctor’s Robe “Leeching”
Attempts to Stop the Plague Flagellanti: Self-inflicted “penance” for our sins!
Attempts to Stop the Plague Pogroms against the Jews “Jew” hat “Golden Circle” obligatory badge
The Mortality Rate 35% - 70% (Figure depends upon the country/region) 25 Million dead!!!
The Mortality Rate 35% - 70% (Figure depends upon the country/region) Using the percentages above calculate how many people would have died with today’s world population (9 Billion people).