Black_Death

Black Death Black Death was the biggest problem in the Middle Ages. The plague was, “The disease, carried by the fleas of infected rats, traveled the caravan routes from central Asia. It arrived in Messina, Sicily, aboard a merchant vessel in October 1347.” No one (peasant or aristocrat) was safe from the disease, and once it was contracted, a terrible and painful death was almost a certainty. Black Death, or the plague, killed indiscriminately without remorse or thought of consequences. The after effect of the Black Death were that it changed the way people felt about life, it also effected the social classes, and it caused the peasants to revolt. Black Death changed the way people felt about life. People in Europe soon began to react and tried to explain why and where the plague came from. Many people who were ignorant believed that the plague was the vengeance of god upon a sinful world. “Preachers saw the plague as divine punishment for sin.” Yet, another group believed that the Jews were the immediate cause of the Black Death. The Jews were accused of poisoning the water supply . Europeans started loosing death, plague, peasants, black, social, people, each, increased, europe, classes, against, started, one, disease, aristocratic, after, affected, workers, won, way, supported, supply, saw, revolted, result, rebellion, poor, peasantry, new, middle, merchants, merchant, life, led, killed