1. POCKET FULL OF BUBONIC PLAGUE!
RING AROUND THE ROSY
POCKET FULL OF BUBONIC PLAGUE!

2. “pocket full of posies,”
Ring Around the Rosy
“Ring around the rosy,”
“pocket full of posies,”
“ashes, ashes,”
“we all fall down”

3. “pocket full of posies,”
rose colored ring around the plague sore on victims’ bodies or protection of rosary
flowers to ward off the stench of the disease & dead
Too many dead people – burn the bodies
indicates death.
“Ring around the rosy,”
“pocket full of posies,”
“ashes, ashes,”
“we all fall down”

4. The Black or Bubonic Plague
, but it neither began nor ended then.
About 1/3 of the population died; over 25 million people

5. What is Bubonic Plague?? Infectious disease
Bite from an infected flea/Touch an infected animal.

6. Why were the Europeans so baffled by the plague?

7. SYMPTOMS
chills, fever, vomiting, diarrhea, and the black boils in the armpits, neck, and groin.
"Black Death" from black buboes – egg size! (blood)
Horrible pain  death in 4-6 days
Can spread to lungs – fill with frothy liquid, contagious, lethal

10. Where did it come from?

11. Via What?

14. Why did the plague seem to go away each winter?

16. Peter Bruegel “The Triumph of Death”

19. Why do you think the Church suffered during the plague?

20. EFFECTS in EUROPE Birth Rate drops – kids not worth the trouble
( 400 years to replace dead)
Fewer people = Fewer WORKERS
Workers travel to get higher wages – often to towns/cites.
LAND no longer sole measure of wealth. Portable wealth = money, skills and services.
Social, economic, and political structure of Europe was forever altered.
One tiny insect, a flea, toppled feudalism and changed the course of history in Europe.