The realities of the Black Death.

              Most people thought the illness was based on religious beliefs like gods and demons. Others believed bad vapors or clouds of gas caused it.  Another belief was that the disease was a way of God punishing them. Medieval doctors though, believed the plague was a result from having too many body fluids. Fluids such like tears, blood, and sweat. To treat this inbalance of fluids, doctors made victims bleed close to the heart in order to balance it. Bleeding by the heart was also said to improve circulation. Doctors tried to give victims accurate portions of liquids to make their system balanced once again.

               Scientist have figured out the more scientific and more realistic cause though. Rats. A lot of rats would have diseases like this in their blood. So when fleas come by and suck at the rat's blood, they get it. These fleas also went onto humans to feed off of them. So when the flea is contaminated and interacts with us, we get the plague. It traveled to all of these different places by rats going onto cargo ships where fleas and humans were. It's almost like these ships made everything convenient for everyone else involved with the plague.  Scientist have also gave the plague a more scientific name. It's better name is the Black Death.

The After Effects.

               One third of Europe's population died from the plague. The population in many areas decreased due to the amount of people dying or people trying to escape the disease. In a lot of cases though, it was probably both. A lot of victims were permanently weakened and stunned from the whole experience. Some blamed the Jews for transmitting the disease to everyone. So that issue caused even more chaos between everyone. Then that chaos caused riots and outbreaks of violence. An example of these outbreaks was the Peasants' Revolt in England. The disease also concluded in loss of labor since all of the slaves and workers died. So the decrease in labor also decreased production and the crops being sold and eaten. And then that led to starvation. Generations of families, scholars, artisans, and councils were destroyed. All of the social classes were forced to start all over again.

               These effects and social classes being destroyed happend a couple other times. There wer about three or four trimes the plague came back in. All of them caused nearly the same conquequences. The most devestating time it hot though waws between 1437 and 1450. During that time there were three different types of the plague. That meant that there were three different ways to suffer. But also three different ways to figure out a way to be cured. Even thought these other types were just as bad as the original, victims had hopes that this type would be different and less survere. Even though they werent right, it kept them keeping their chins up.