THE BLACK DEATH

TONY M.

The Bubonic Plague was a bacteria that was eaten by a flea, and that flea

bit a rat, and that rat started biting people and animals, and the people

Illustration of the Black Death from the Toggenburg Bible (1411)

spread the disease while the rat reproduced. The people spread it by

poisoning the waters because they buried there own people that had

the plague by the rivers, and that same bacteria got into the waters and

people drank it.

The Black Death rapidly spread along the major European sea and land trade routes

 

      In October, the 1347, a fleet of ships sailed out to Messina, Italy.

By the time it reached Messina, all the crew members were infected, or dead.

That is how bad this plague is. A fleet of ships died.

     During the 1700’ds, when the Bubonic Plague was at its worst,

it was at this time when the Catholics started blaming Jews,

foreigners, and peasants, for starting this plague, which no one did.

It was a simple flea that started all of this. Because of the Catholics

starting this accusation, all these people, (the Jews, the foreigners,

of millions of deaths

the peasants) were all burnt alive.  

     In October, the 1347, a fleet of ships sailed out to Messina, Italy.

By the time it reached Messina, all the crew members were infected,

or dead.That is how bad this plague is. A fleet of ships died.

     So the BLACK DEATH was one of the worst pandemics in

human history, it was incurable, even now. It is a slow torturous death,

and who would’ve thought, one flea could kill 75 million people in 5 yr.   

 BIBLIOGRAPHY: http://en.wikipedea.org/wiki/Black_Death

                            In the wake of the plague THE BLACK DEATH AND THE WORLD IT MADE BY Norman F. Cantor