AP EH A Time of Troubles: Black Death and Social Crisis

13th century

A Time of Troubles: Black Death and Social Crisis Famine and Population ● By the end of the ________, Europe had entered a "little ice age "and its weather changed drastically which hurt harvests immensely, therefore, causing widespread famine and hunger across all of Europe.

Black Death

The ________ in Europe ● The ________ of the mid- fourteenth century was the most devastating natural disaster in European history, ravaging Europes population and causing economic, social, political, and cultural upheaval.

A Time of Troubles

Black Death and Social Crisis Famine and Population ● By the end of the 13th century, Europe had entered a "little ice age" and its weather changed drastically which hurt harvests immensely, therefore, causing widespread famine and hunger across all of Europe

The Black Death

From Asia to Europe ● In the mid-14th century, the Black Death struck Asia, North Africa, and Europe

LIFE AND DEATH

REACTIONS TO THE PLAGUE ● Natural disasters of the magnitude of the great plague produce extreme psychological reactions

little ice age

weather changed drastically which hurt harvests immensely, therefore, causing widespread famine and hunger across all of Europe

Black Death

bubonic plague which was spread by black rats infested with fleas who were the host to the deadly bacterium Yersinia pestis

pogroms

organized massacres