1. World Economic History October 5, 2007

2. Life Expectancy Chapter 5

3. Life expectancy

4. The Black Death

6. Black Death Spread

7. The Black Death: origins The world experienced it before:  Byzantine Empire – 6 th century AD  Spread to the Mediterranean world a century later The bug(s):  Bubonic plague: bacillus carried by parasites on the back of rodents (the black rat)  Anthrax Spread  Trade (ports, ships)  Beliefs of the time: spread through the air (miasma)

8. Europe, 14 th century

9. Life after the Plague: did England and the Netherlands fled the Malthusian trap?