3. What were the political, economic, and social effects of the Black Death?? Analyze and explain the connection between Mercantilism and the Crusades.

4. The Culprits

5. 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!

6. The Famine of 1315-1317  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 1315-17.  As many as 15% of the peasants in some English villages died.  One consequence of starvation & poverty was susceptibility to disease.

7. The Symptoms Bulbous Septicemic Form: almost 100% mortality rate.

8. From the Toggenburg Bible, 1411

9. Lancing a Buboe

10. Medieval Art & the Plague

11. Bring out your dead!

12. Medieval Art & the Plague An obsession with death.

13. Boccaccio in The Decameron The victims ate lunch with their friends and dinner with their ancestors.

14. The Danse Macabre

15. Attempts to Stop the Plague A Doctor’s Robe “Leeching”

16. Attempts to Stop the Plague Flagellanti: Self-inflicted “penance” for our sins!

17. Attempts to Stop the Plague Pogroms against the Jews “Jew” hat “Golden Circle” obligatory badge

18. Death Triumphant !: A Major Artistic Theme

19. A Little Macabre Ditty “A sickly season,” the merchant said, “The town I left was filled with dead, and everywhere these queer red flies crawled upon the corpses’ eyes, eating them away.” “Fair make you sick,” the merchant said, “They crawled upon the wine and bread. Pale priests with oil and books, bulging eyes and crazy looks, dropping like the flies.”

20. A Little Macabre Ditty (2) “I had to laugh,” the merchant said, “The doctors purged, and dosed, and bled; “And proved through solemn disputation “The cause lay in some constellation. “Then they began to die.” “First they sneezed,” the merchant said, “And then they turned the brightest red, Begged for water, then fell back. With bulging eyes and face turned black, they waited for the flies.”

21. A Little Macabre Ditty (3) “I came away,” the merchant said, “You can’t do business with the dead. “So I’ve come here to ply my trade. “You’ll find this to be a fine brocade…” And then he sneezed……….!

22. The Mortality Rate 35% - 70% 25,000,000 dead !!!

23. What were the political, economic, and social effects of the Black Death??

24. Answer the following questions on your sheet of paper. Describe how the Plague spread using the map. Use directions (N,S,E,W) in your response. Which areas were harder hit? Why do you think these areas had more cases of the Plague?

25. 1347: Plague Reaches Constantinople!

26. Analyze and explain the connection between Mercantilism and the Crusades. What impact did these have on the spread of the Bubonic Plague? Mercantilism AKA Commercialism –the act of trading with other countries to build wealth The Crusades A series of brutal religious wars fought by Europeans to win control of Palestine – the birthplace of Christianity – from Muslim rule.

27. Exchange of goods and ideas (AKA cultural diffusion) Silk Cotton Spices Glass Paper Cucumbers Grapes Religious beliefs Gems Textiles Alphabet Sugar Rice Perfumes Gunpowder Porcelain