Early_Europe

Early Europe Life among the big cities of Europe was much different then we know them as today. In 1492 there was an epidemic outbreak of many diseases, such as plague and smallpox, which accompanied the common measles, influenza, diphtheria, typhus, and typhoid fever, that claimed the lives of 20 percent of the population. European pesthouse cities, at the time, were so poor that they relied heavily on in-migration from the countryside to preserve the cities existence. Famine was very common in the sixteenth-century. “The rich ate, and ate to excess, watched by a thousand hungry eyes as they consumed their gargantuan meals. The rest of the population starved.” This became the norm of this era. As a result from the outbreak of disease and the threat of famine this “in-migration” occurred. A failure to migrate out of this area resulted in a mass death repeatedly in the fifteenth century. People had no other choice, either they stayed in their disease and famine stricken cities or they move to the pesthouse cities of Europe, neither which was too enticing. While the poor people were struggling to survive each day, the rich were people, poor, cities, rich, famine, women, must, men, living, lives, life, holocaust, during, columbus, children, ate, while, wanted, voyage, spanish, result, repulsive, repeatedly, population, pesthouse, outbreak, native, much, mass, luxury, left, just, in-migration, human, fifteenth