World Civ FINAL EXAM: The Black Death

Pax Mongolica

big concern=wealth

want peace with their land and sea for trade to continue

the black deaths ability to spread made it very dangerous

What was the Black Death?

1) Pneumonic- inhale

2) Septicemic- in the blood, bitten

3) Bubonic (most common)- Large swelling on skin, blackened color

Scientific Consensus

Bad Air

Siege of Café: 1345-1347

-Caffa Kingdom of Genoa and the Horde

-Khans retreat and take several corpes of the Black Death through them over the wall into Italian Territory.

Europe before the Plague

-Peasants rising up

-2 strongest Christian leaders fighting

-Less crops, famine, starvation

-many people in cities

-Climate change

Death and Destruction: 1347-1353

-In Europe, 1 in 3 people dead

-cannot dispose of dead bodies quick enough

-believed it was because of the air not bacteria

-People who fled would bring it with them unknowingly

Consequences of the Plague

-fault of religious leaders?

-Sovereignty of God: Intentionally or Suffering, judgement, sinners, non-christians

Social and Economic Consequences

-peasents and Agricultural labor

-new leverage for labors, riots and social unrest common

-Inheritance and Land Owners

-difficult for people to get wills in order because people dying so fast

-Out of need people women are allowed to own land

The Plague in the Islamic World

-Plague comes directly from Allah

-Not contagious

-Allah chooses who gets the plague

-Believed that goin away from a plague stricken city is non-ethical

Plague Divine Mercy

-Painful process to die, think its a good way to test your faith

-Martyrdom

-Provides a martyr’s death

-If you can die well its a testament to you faith

Plague variations

The muslim world perceives the plague differently from Europe

-Plague as judgement

-Every religion cry out to God