The_Black_Death

The Black Death The Black Death The Black Death was a plague that haunted Europe for four years. It began its horrible rampage in 1347 and ended in late 1351. In those four years it is estimated to have killed between twenty-five to forty-five percent of the population of Europe. “The Black Death was the single worst natural phenomenon in European medieval history” (Jordan 90). The Black Death, which killed one-third of the population of Europe, drastically changed the way of life for many people and had many social and economical consequences. The plague was a highly lethal disease caused by a strain of bacteria called Yersinia pestis. The bacterium that the plague came from is usually confined to a type of flea and the rats that the flea feeds on. Different weather patterns were one of the causes of the plague bacteria to infect humans in the early 1300s. Environment conditions can cause the flea to infect humans with the bacteria, and spread suddenly over a large area (Jordan 90). The Yersinia pestis flea usually occupied a certain kind of environment that is found in southern Asia, the Arabian Peninsula, and east Africa (Jordan 90). plague, people, death, black, corzine, jordan, 90, one, out, jews, after, 91, europe, died, caused, flea, during, population, medieval, infected, even, way, salvation, new, hundred, form, disease, called, brought, began, bacteria, along, years, victims, two