Now I know what you're thinking, "But Jared!!! The black Death (or as some people call it the black plague or bubonic plague) isn't a natural disaster!!! What are you? Some sort of person that's not as smart as me?" First of all, you're right. I'm not as smart as you. Congrats!!! But I'm way smarter person with below average intelligence. Second of all, the plague happened naturally. Even though it's a disease, it's still considered a disaster so be quiet and let me finish my last post geez.
plague doctors for their ability to fight the plague more effectively than other doctors.
It had begun in 1346 and ended in 1353. Named one of the most deadly plagues known to earth and now it has become my number one natural disaster! Ooh, shouldn't get excited about this.... This plague killed over 200 million people in Europe.
The plague would leave buboes all over the body and they were very contagious. The guy spreading confetti over there is happy for them dying! No that would be horrible. They believed that the disease was spread by bad odors and so he's probably spreading smelly soap particles to clean up dirty Europe.
Like I said, they believed that good smelling things was the way to ward off the disease and save them yay! Oops, looks like they were wrong, and dead. One of the reasons which makes this disaster very deadly. By thinking that was the way to cure the plague, they stopped or at least slowed down the process to finding what really stopped the plague in which case made it so more people became infected by it and made it last longer. In all truth, they found out eventually what really caused the plague. It was rats who carried it and spread it.
Just a picture to up my visuals in the blog unit. It's of a rat which carried the black plague in Europe.
Rats are one of the big reasons why the plague was so deadly.
Just as I said the rats have greatly affected how deadly the plague was compared to if it started on human beings. Boats were major modes of transportation in the 14th century. If people were infected, they'd get thrown off the boat. Since they can't tell and didn't know it was rats carrying the disease, it was hard to stop it. Also, rats are quite the nimble, cunning and quick rodents so their capability to spread the virus was greatly increased. Which brings un to our next point why it was dangerous, the speed. This plague quickly covered Europe and infected many people. The plague caused people to become bed ridden which stopped the speed at which a cure is found which makes this very deadly.
An image showing the year by year play on
the spreading of the virus. What speed!!!
That is why, I think, the black plague, deserves, to be, number 1, on my list, of the worlds, worst, disasters. Thank you to all my viewers and yes this is the last post once again. I'm happy to see people have learned off of my blog and maybe get a laugh or two. I hope you all enjoyed. See ya!
Sources:
-Personal knowledge
-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death
-http://www.historytoday.com/ole-j-benedictow/black-death-greatest-catastrophe-ever
-http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/plague.htm
Hey Jared, I think your post is really interesting. I've heard about the black plague but I never really knew what is was or had any interest to research and learn about it. Since you explained it in your post, I think that this is awful :( I can't believe so many people died of this disease (that actually spreads very quickly). Thanks for informing me on the black plague!!!
ReplyDeleteGreta voice. Very funny throughout, despite the topic choice, and making fun of your poor innocent teacher. But you forgot the biggest natural disaster: Zombie Apocalypse!!! or…dare I say it….the Advent of Robotics!
ReplyDeleteNatural disasters are a terrifying prospect. We never know when our little neck of the woods might be affected. + What do you do when you don’t get advance warning?
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- Sometimes the details or the ‘why’ of your opinion is lacking. I.e. Why do you feel that way?
But overall, a very nice set of posts.