PRESENTATION ABOUT THE BLACK PLAGUE - GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY

the black

plague

Made by Efrén Ruiz Cañestro, Ángel García Jiménez, Ángel Rojas García y Helena Moreno Pimentel.

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7. Explicative video

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Index

1. What is the black plague?

2. Geographic origin and expansion

3. Demographic consequences

4. Economic and social consequences

5. Current status of the pandemic

6. Curiosities

01 WHAT IS THE BLACK PLAGUE

The Black Death or Black Death was the most devastating bubonic plague pandemic in human history, affecting Europe, Asia and Africa. It reached a peak between 1347 and 1353 and killed a third of Europe's population. It was an outbreak caused by a variant of the Yersinia pestis bacteria. This bacteria creates buboes that are found in the armpits, the upper part of the femur, the groin, and the neck region.

In 1347, it affected the Crimean peninsula, the Anatolian Peninsula, Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica. A year later it spread to the entire Mediterranean coast (part of Spain, Italian Peninsula, North Africa, etc.). Later, it reached all of Europe and spread to southern Africa, even reaching Asia.

It spread through ships, which had rats (the infectious agents). Also, at that time large cities began to be created, and there were many people together.

02 geographic origin and expansion

It is believed that its origin was in the commercial city 'Caffa', on the Crimean Peninsula (Black Sea), exactly in the year 1346, when the city was attacked by a Mongol army.

Approximately, in the 14th century it killed 25 million people in Europe, and 60 million in Africa and Asia, and throughout history it has killed 400 million people. The highest mortality occurred in cities due to overcrowding. The richest people generally fled to their country houses (countryside) when the first cases appeared, but that did not prevent the contagion from reaching even kings and nobles in the most severe epidemics.

3. DEMOGRAPHIC CONSEQUENCES

The city where the Black Plague was born.

3. economic and social CONSEQUENCES

By killing 30% of the population, economic production suffered great losses (also inflation). There wasn't demand.

As everyone moved to the countryside, the development of cities slowed down abruptly.

The black plague weakened feudalism, and new sistems were born

There were fights between Christians and other religions, because they began to think that it was their fault.

5. current state of the pandemic

Currently, the plague continues to spread through rodent fleas. This disease affects almost 3,000 people worldwide. With proper treatment, however, 85 percent of today's victims survive the disease. The fact that bacteria change so slowly gives doctors more time to treat it. This means that said virus no longer wipes out entire populations. Current antibiotics are effective against the modern Yersinia pestis, and would also have been effective against the Black Death.

The infectious agent is called Yersinia pestis, in honor of a person who investigated this disease, he was called 'Yersinia'.

There were more that one type of plague: bubonic plague, septicemic plague and pneumonic plague Each one afects us through a different way.

They also thought that one cause of the plague was the bad smell in the street, so they maked custom mask with bird beaks.

They thought that god was punishing them, so Cristians (most of the people in Europe) hounded muslims and jews.

6. Curiosities

7. explicative video

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Made by Efrén Ruiz Cañestro, Ángel García Jiménez, Ángel Rojas García y Helena Moreno Pimentel.

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