Black Death - Wikipedia
The Black Death was a bubonic plague pandemic that occurred in Europe from 1346 to 1353. It was one of the most fatal pandemics in human history; as many as 50 million people [2] perished, perhaps 50% of Europe's 14th century population. [3] The disease is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis and spread by fleas and through the air.
Black Death ‑ Causes, Symptoms & Impact - HISTORY
2010年9月17日 · The Black Death was a devastating global epidemic of bubonic plague that struck Europe and Asia in the mid-1300s. Explore the facts of the plague, the symptoms it caused and how millions died...
Black Death | Definition, Cause, Symptoms, Effects, Death Toll,
2024年12月27日 · Black Death, pandemic that ravaged Europe between 1347 and 1351, taking a proportionately greater toll of life than any other known epidemic or war up to that time. The Black Death is widely thought to have been the result of plague, caused by …
The Black Death: The Plague, 1331-1770 - University of Iowa
The bubonic plague was the most commonly seen form during the Black Death, with a mortality rate of 30-75% and symptoms including fever of 38 - 41 °C (101-105 °F), headaches, painful aching joints, nausea and vomiting, and a general feeling of malaise.
Black Death - World History Encyclopedia
2023年4月5日 · Bubonic plague was the most common during the 14th-century outbreak, causing severe swelling in the groin and armpits (the lymph nodes) which take on a sickening black colour, hence the name the Black Death.
The Black Death: The Greatest Catastrophe Ever | History Today
Ole J Benedictow calculated that the Black Death, or bubonic plague, killed 50 million people in the 14th century – or 60 per cent of Europe’s entire population.
The Black Death: A Timeline of the Gruesome Pandemic - HISTORY
2020年4月16日 · Called the Great Mortality as it caused its devastation, this second great pandemic of Bubonic Plague became known as the Black Death in the late 17th Century. Modern genetic analysis...
Black Death - Bubonic Plague, Europe, 1347 | Britannica
2024年12月27日 · Black Death - Bubonic Plague, Europe, 1347: The plague originated in Asia, and entered Europe in 1347 when Janibeg catapulted plague-infested corpses into the besieged port of Kaffa (now Feodosiya) in Crimea. From Kaffa, Genoese ships carried the epidemic westward to the rest of Europe, and the plague reached northern Europe by 1350.
The Black Death - Smarthistory
“The plague hit hard and fast. People lay ill little more than two or three days and died suddenly…. He who was well one day was dead the next and being carried to his grave,” writes the Carmelite friar Jean de Venette in his 14th-century French chronicle.
The source of the Black Death in fourteenth-century central Eurasia
The Black Death, caused by the bacterium Y. pestis 10, was the initial wave of a nearly 500-year-long pandemic termed the second plague pandemic and is one of the largest infectious disease catastrophes in human history 1,11,12.