Chapter 3- the cause and effect

The Black Death 201000955 Hannah Kim                There is an epidemic disease called plague. There is also a very famous historical event 'the black death', related to this notorious disease. This event affected numerous people and also the societies of Europe. Almost 50 percent of people in Europe died because of this disease and also at the end led to the abolition of social status.                To talk about the diases plague itself, there are various kinds and for the black death, 3 kinds of plagues were mixed together. These three kinds were Bubonic Plague, Pneumonic Plague, and Septiuemic Plague and all of these had different symptoms. The Bobonic Plague was spread by fleas living on bodies of infected rats. People felt flu-like symptoms when they have this plague. The mortality rate was around 75% and most people died within seventy-two hours. The next plague, the Pneumonic Plague caused the lungs to fill up with fluid. Because of this, patients infected this disease cough a lot and spit blood. Its mortality rate was 90% to 95%.  Most people died within forty-eight hours.  Lastly, the Septiuemic Plague attacked the blood causing blood to clot in  veins.  The mortality rate was about 100% and people often died within twenty-four hours. This notorious disease took place where there is not sanitary and spread by water and air.                Around 1320, this plague was started to spread and it blanked all over the Europe, including England, France, Germany and so on. The major reason of the spread was terrible sanitation. In this medieval period, in towns, many people owned pigs and they let the pigs go out and roam the road. Therefore, the whole city became really dirty. In addition, the water was also polluted because the river where the water came from were all used for industrial purposes and polluted. The classes that were struck by this plague the most were plebeians and slaves. According to one research, it is considered that the population of one city decreased by 1/3.              This event brought enormous effects both to individuals and societies. First, the price of crops increased dramatically because there were lack of people who can culture crops. Although not so many noble people were infected, the farmers died dramatically, therefore there were a lot of farm lands that no one took care of. This, at the end, let to abolition of the social class because the right of farmers got higher and higher.                In conclusion, you can see major two effects that the notorious disease, the black plague brought to Europe nations. Because of this fatal disease which were cause because of bad sanitary conditions, there were very few farmers who were alive and raised their crops and as a result, the price of crop increased dramatically. And because of this, the right of them raised and the social class was bolished.